Boeing-Stearman Model 75 ↗
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
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An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
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 twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
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