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This strangely looking craft is a wing-in-ground-effect vehicle, or ekranoplane, that uses the air under the square wings as a cushion. Extra air is blown there by two turbofan engines in the nose. Forward speed is mainly achieved by a large turboprop engine on top of the vertical stabiliser. The horizontal stabilisers are highly swept and have a relatively large span.
This single engine turboprop aircraft is easy to recognise: it has a canard configuration with a pusher prop at the end of the fuselage. Also it has vertical stabilisers at the wingtips.
This biplane with single struts and brace wires can have one or two places, with separate or single canopies, but also open cockpits. The top of the fuselage is high between the end of the rear canopy and the rounded vertical stabliser. The horizontal stabilisers are curved all around. The top of the nose is long and flat.
One of the first very light jets that appeared on the market is very easily recognised from every other bizjet type by its twin tail booms. These are unique for a bizjet. The engines are still attached to the rear fuselage though, so very standard.
Intended for the same market as the Cessna Caravan, Quest Kodiak and GippsAero Airvan the Explorer series has a similar appearance. Its main recognition points are the main gear retracting in a pod on the opposite side of the fuselage, and the tall vertical stabiliser with small dorsal fin.
These two aircraft are two generations of the same aircraft, that started as Aeritalia G222. It has the same configuration and size as the CN235/C295, but has a wider fuselage, and different and many cockpit windows. Moreover, it has only a few cabin windows!
To recognise the AL-60C (and the license-built Atlas Kudu shown) look for the drooping down nose, box-like fuselage and swept vertical stabiliser with straight edges and small dorsal fin. The wing tips taper and become thinner towards the tip.
Straight wings with tip tanks and small, round air intakes in the wing roots characterise this jet training aircraft. It furthermore has a tandem cockpit with a bow frame near the front, except for the single seat variants of course. The back and front seats are at about the same level.
The small, nearly round air intakes in the wing roots are the main characteristic of this jet trainer aircraft. It resembles its predecessor however, the MB326, which has the same type of air intakes. To distinguish both aircraft look at the canopy: the one of the MB339 is larger and the rear seat is higher than the front seat.
The inverted gull wings are a key feature of the MC200, as is the shape of the nose: at the radial engine it has a constant diameter, after which the top of the fuselage slopes up to the canopy. The canopy sort of pops out, but the rear is closed. The main gear retracts inward in the wings.