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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
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