Instructions

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Airliners with two wing mounted engines

Airbus A300 Airbus A320

Airbus A330Boeing 737

Dart style wing tips (Only the A300 & A320

have this feature)

Flat belly (The only Airbus

like this)

Wing Root ( The A320, A330 & A340 will all have this feature)

Dart style wing tip (Like the A300)

Winglets (The A330 & A340 are the only two Airbuses with this feature)

Wing Root (Like the A320 & A340)

No Tail End (The only Boeing Like this) Short stubby

Fuselage

Comparison

A320

Comparison

A300

Comparison

Boeing 757, 767

Comparison

Boeing 757, 767

Boeing 757 Boeing 767

Boeing 777

Noticeable teeth on the wings

Longer Pointed Tail

End (The only Boeing

Like this)

Short stubby Tail End

Wedged Tail End (The 777 and 717 are the only

Boeing Like this)

Noticeable Cones out the back end of the engines

(The only Boeing like this)

Two piece engine

Comparison

Boeing 737, 767

Comparison

Boeing 737, 757

Comparison

Boeing 767, A300

Airliners with two wing mounted engines and one engine mounted

on top of fuselage

Lockheed L1011

Third Engine fused into fuselage

Comparison

Boeing 727

Exhaust out the tail end

Airliners with four wing mounted engines

Airbus A340 Boeing 707

Boeing 747 DC-8

Winglets (Like the A330)

Long slender engines (The only Boeing like this)

Antenna (The only Boeing with this feature)

Slender engines

Intake under the nose (The only

aircraft like this)

Double Deck (The only aircraft like this)

Comparison

Boeing 707, DC-8

Comparison

A340, DC-8

Comparison

A340, Boeing 707

Airliners with two fuselage mounted engines

Boeing 717 F100

MD-80

Added piece from fuselage

to tail wing

Slight Tail End

Wedged tail end (like the Boeing 777)

Smaller fuselage

Comparison

ERJ 145

Comparison

MD-80

Comparison

F100

Pointed Tail End

Wings set far back on the

Fuselage

Airliners with two fuselage side mounted engines and one mounted on top of the

fuselage

Boeing 727

Engine Fused into the fuselage

Exhaust out the tail end

Comparison

Lockheed L1011

Airliners with two fuselage mounted engines and one

engine in the tail fin

DC-10 MD-11

Straight tip wingsMore square blunt tail end

Fin on back of third engine

Comparison

MD-11

Winglets

Fin on back of third engine that goes past the exhaust

Comparison

DC-10

Wedged tail end

Straight tip wings

More square blunt tail end

Fin on back of third engine

Comparison

MD-11

DC-10

Business Jets with two fuselage mounted engines

Cessna Citation Gulfstream

Hawker HS125 Learjet

Long Blunt Nose

Low mounted tail fins that have an

upward angle

Comparison

Learjet, Gulfstream

Round Windows

Winglets (The only business Jet with

winglets)

Comparison

Citation, Learjet

Noticeable spine going down the

fuselage

Huge tail wing that goes below the

fuselage

Comparison

Falcon 50Rectangular

windows

Fuel Pods on the end of the wings (The only business jet

like this)

Comparison

Citation, Gulfstream

Business Jets with two fuselage side mounted engines and one

engine mounted on top of fuselage

Falcon 50

Round Windows

Swept back wings

Exhaust out the tail end

Third Engine (The only business jet with third engine)

Comparison

Hawker HS125

Fighter Jets

F-16

Air Intake under fuselage

Comparison

T-38

Helicopter with 5 main rotor blades and skids

MD-500

Egg Shaped Body

High T-Tail

Helicopter with four main rotor blades and landing gears

S-76 UH-60S-76

Dolphin NoseRetractable landing gears

Low mounted

tail fin Reverse landing gears

Bent rotor blade tips

Comparison

Squirrel, Bell 206

Helicopter with three main rotor blades and skids

Squirrel

Exhaust out the back of the engine

The window by the nose is a good give

away Handles near the front of the

skids

Comparison

S-76, Bell 206, UH-1

Helicopter with two main rotor blades and skids

Bell 206 UH-1

Encased Exhaust

Blunt Nose

Comparison

Squirrel, Bell 206

Exhaust on Top of engine

Fin in middle of Tail Boom

Comparison

Squirrel, UH-1

Light Aircraft with one prop engine

Beech A36 Bonanza Cessna C172

Cessna C210 Mooney

Low mounted

wings

Low mounted tail

fin

Noticeable vents

Comparison

Piper Cherokee

High mounted wings with Struts (The only Cessna with wing struts)

Non retractable rear landing

gears

Comparison

Cessna C210

High Mounted wingsRetractable

landing gears

Comparison

Cessna C172

Wings and tail fin all are

swept forward

Wings and tail fin all are swept

forward

Mooney

Long Flat nose

Comparison

Piper Cherokee, A36 Bonanza

Piper Cherokee Piper Cub

Piper Tri-Pacer

Low mounted Wings

Tail fin mounted at the tail end

Comparison

A36 Bonanza Mooney

All wings are

rounded on the ends

Reversed Landing gears (The only Piper like this

Comparison

Piper Tri-Pacer

All Wings are rounded

True tricycle Landing gears

Comparison

Piper Cub

Light Aircraft with two prop engines

Beech King Air Cessna C310

Square windows

Air Intakes on the side of the

engines

Fuel Pods on the end of the

wings

Comparison

Beech King Air

Air Intake under the engines

Round windows

Comparison

Cessna C310

Military Cargo Helicopter with two prop engines

CH-46 Sea Knight Ch-47 Chinook

Enclosed engines

Hips Long Window under nose External Engines Smooth Body

Comparison

Chinook

Comparison

Sea Knight

Military Cargo jets with four prop engines

C-130 Hercules

The only Military Aircraft that will have prop engines

Military Cargo Jets with four wing mounted engines

C-5 Galaxy C-17 Globemaster

C-141 Starlifter

Top Mounted Tail fin

Straight wings

Comparison

Globemaster

Starlifter

Winglets

High Mounted tail

fin

Comparison

Galaxy, Starlifter

Slight Hump

Suppression Cones in the engines

Comparison

Galaxy, Globemaster

Military Radar Aircraft

E-3 Sentry (AWACS)

Radar on the fuselage

Military Refuelers with four engines

KC-135 Stratotanker

Antenna on top of tail wing

Refueling Boom

Comparison

KC-10 Extender, Boeing 707

Military Refuelers with two wing mounted engines and one tail fin

mounted engine

KC-10 Extender

Refueling Boom

Tail wing mounted engine

Comparison

KC-135 Stratotanker, DC-10, MD-11

Military Transport Helicopters

CH-3 Jolly Green Giant CH-53 Sea Stallion

Long Pods

Landing Gear Boots

Rear landing

gear

Rounded body to tail

boom

Comparison

Jolly Green Giant

Comparison

Sea Stallion

Regional Jets with two fuselage mounted engines

CRJ ERJ 145

Angled Sharp Nose

Winglets

Comparison

Boeing 717, ERJ 145, Gulfstream

Wing root and a hump under the rear of

fuselage

Smooth engines

Angled Nose

Comparison

Boeing 717, CRJ

Regional Jets with two wing mounted engines

ERJ 170

Winglets

Angled Nose

Comparison

Boeing 737, CRJ, F100

Long Pointed Tail End

Trainer Jets

T-38

Long Pointed Nose Side Mounted Air Intakes

Comparison

F-16

Turbo Prop Airliners with four prop engines

Dash 7

Four Prop Engines

Cockpit is more Squared Comparison

Dash-8, Twin Otter, Convair Twin

Turbo Prop Airliners with two engines

Convair Twin Dash 8

Dehavilland Twin Otter

Big Tail wingBlunt Nose

Low mounted wings

Comparison

Dash 7, Dash 8, Twin otter

Sharp pointed and angled nose

High Mounted wings and engines

Comparison

Dash 7, Convair Twin, Twin Otter

Mid Mounted Tail Fin

Wing Struts

Comparison

Dash 7, Dash 8, Convair Twin

Ultra Light Helicopters

R-22 Robinson Schweizer 300

Boomerang Tail wing

Tapered Tail Boom

Two rotor

blades

Comparison

Schweizer 300

Fuel tank

Three rotor blades

Skinny Tail Boom

Skids go beyond the body

Comparison

R-22 Robinson