Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star ↗
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
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Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation 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.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
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