Aerostar 600 ↗
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
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Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
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