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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.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
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