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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
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