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An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
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An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
New aircraft, useful sources and improvements to AirframeDB. Occasional updates, when there’s something to share.