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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 powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
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