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The He 162 was built during the closing stages of the Second World War, among the first generation of jet fighters. A single jet engine sits above its compact fuselage.
VSKYLABS' simulation explores early jet handling and operating limits, including developer-modelled engine and airframe failures caused by mishandling.
He 162 A-2: Smithsonian preserved-aircraft record
The HondaJet mounts its engines above the main wing. Honda's design account traces that arrangement to Michimasa Fujino's work in 1997, allowing the cabin to avoid the rear-fuselage engine installation used on many small business jets.
FlightFX's HJet represents the HA-420 with a custom G3000, VNAV, cruise-speed control and automated hydraulics. HJet24 is a separate native MSFS 2024 rebuild with Working Title integration and revised automation.
Honda HA-420 HondaJet
The H-4 Hercules was conceived as a wartime transatlantic transport and completed after the war. Eight engines and an immense wing surrounded its flying-boat hull. The prototype made one brief flight on 2 November 1947 and never entered operational transport service.
The familiar Spruce Goose nickname conceals a construction detail: birch was a major material in the wooden airframe. The simulator represents this single experimental aircraft.
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OH-6A / H500C · Taog's Hangar · MSFS 2024
Taog’s manual places the command seat on the right in the military OH-6A and on the left in the civilian H500C. It describes the four-bladed rotor and differing engine installations. These are earlier family configurations than the later MD500E described in several pilot accounts.
Taog OH-6A/H500C manual v1.1 · PDF pp.7–10
Hughes OH-6 / 500 · CowanSim · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The MSFS manual requires separate collective and twist-throttle axes, naming COLLECTIVE AXIS and SET HELICOPTER THROTTLE AXIS. It distinguishes the collective’s engine-RPM beep switch from the cyclic trim controls. The starter is a toggle that must be cycled off before another start.
Cowan MSFS 500E manual · PDF pp.1–5,9
Hughes developed the compact, single-turbine OH-6 for the US Army's Light Observation Helicopter programme. Its reconnaissance and utility roles were followed by the civilian Hughes 500 lineage.
Engines, rotors and equipment changed across the OH-6 and 500 family. Taog's simulator package offers skid and float configurations and documents electric cyclic trim; it does not describe that trim as a full automatic flight-control system.
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Flying Fries Hughes XF-11 · Flying Fries · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
The manual identifies trim controls on all three axes. Its control lock removes normal aileron and elevator control while elevator trim remains usable. Engine-failure features and sounds have their own version context.
XF-11 manual v3.0.0, 1 June 2026; PDF pp.5–7 History; pp.19–20 and 32–34 trim and control lock
The XF-11 began as Hughes' military reconnaissance project during the Second World War. The developer's history follows the programme from a larger intended production order to two flying prototypes after the war. The first used two Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engines.
Flying Fries represents the contra-rotating-propeller configuration with period autopilot equipment and custom simulation features. Its manual describes three-axis trim and a control lock that can immobilise aileron and elevator controls while leaving elevator trim available.
Hughes XF-11
The HC-02 is a two-seat helicopter developed and manufactured in Hungary. Its compact layout uses a Rotax 915 iS engine, with the project’s documentation also discussing an electric emergency-power system.
VSKYLABS represents the HC-02 in an X-Plane 12 product. The developer describes an independent simulation built around native X-Plane features and provides separate operating and update documentation.
Hungarocopter two-seat HC-02 ERS
ICON designed the A5 for recreational flying from water and runways. The two-seat amphibian has a compact boat hull, retractable landing gear and a high-mounted engine driving a pusher propeller behind the cockpit. A broad canopy provides visibility around the cabin.
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Nemeth Designs Ilyushin Il-18D · Nemeth Designs · MSFS 2024
Sections 2.1.5–2.1.7 describe rigid mechanical elevator controls with a loading spring and aileron runs using rods and cables. Elevator trim acts through a mechanical tab, and the right aileron has electric trim. The four-engine propulsion installation is separate from those primary-control mechanisms.
Nemeth technical description; sections 2.1.5–2.1.7 primary controls and trim; AP-6E and equipment
The VL-3 originated with Aveko and continued under JMB Aircraft. Its composite low-wing airframe and enclosed side-by-side two-seat cabin belong to the European ultralight and light-aircraft market.
The Evolution programme has offered different engines, landing gear and cockpit equipment over time. Simulator product descriptions identify the configuration represented by each package.
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