Douglas DC-3 ↗
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
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A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
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