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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
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