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A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
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A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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