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Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
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Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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