The Eurocopter EC665 Tiger is a twin-engined, four-bladed attack helicopter developed jointly by France and Germany and built today by Airbus Helicopters, the successor to Eurocopter. It was the first all-composite helicopter designed in…
The Dornier 328 is a twin-turboprop regional airliner conceived by Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH at Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich, for a very specific niche: around thirty seats, three-abreast, and performance close enough to a jet that the…
The Saab 2000 is a twin-engined, low-wing, pressurised regional turboprop built at Linköping in Sweden and conceived in the late 1980s as the next size up from the successful Saab 340. Saab committed to the design in December 1988 and…
The Canadair CL-415 is a twin-turboprop amphibious aircraft designed specifically for aerial firefighting: it scoops up to 6,137 litres of water in about twelve seconds while skimming a lake or the sea, mixes it in flight with foam or…
The F-22 Raptor, built by Lockheed Martin together with Boeing, is an American twin-engine, all-weather supersonic stealth fighter built above all for air superiority, though it also carries ground attack, electronic warfare and signals…
The Boeing 717 is an American five-abreast narrow-body airliner with two rear-mounted engines, conceived for the 100-seat market. It originated inside McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as the MD-95, a shortened derivative of the MD-80…