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The cockpit popping out of the front fuselage is one of the main characteristics of the twin prop aircraft. Other features are the rectangular cabin windows with rounded corners, and main gear retracting outward in the wings. Normally the vertical stabiliser is curved from the dorsal fin to the tail cone, but there are conversions with a different tail.
The world's first jet airliner can be recognised by the four jet engines in the wing roots, the nearly straight vertical stabiliser and the main landing gear retracting outward in the wings. It has a circular cross section fuselage.
Britain's primary trainer of the 1930s and 1940 has a very characteristic vertical stabiliser compared to similar aircraft. Other features include the inline piston engine and two parallel struts between the outer wings.
The Fox Moth is basically a Tiger Moth with an enclosed cabin. This is directly behind the inline piston engine and features two big windows on each side. The pilot sits behind and above the cabin. The vertical fin has the typical deHavilland shape.
The DH89 has a similar external appearance as the DH84 and DH90, and to a lesser extent the four-engined DH86. The Dragon Rapide's characteristics are tapered wings with elliptical wing tips, fairings around the main gear and five cabin windows.
Key features of the DH9 series are equal span wings with a slight dihedral, braced by two sets of vertical struts on both sides, with cables in between. The wing tips are rounded. Also typical is the top of the rear fuselage tapering down. There were many different engines, but always a liquid cooled one.
The two enormous Merlin liquid cooled piston engines already make up half of the length of this iconic bomber/fighter. Their props are turning near the tip of the nose. Furthermore, the Mosquito has a small vertical stabiliser with the shape of half an oval. The single wheel main gear retracts rearward in the nacelles.
With its twin tail boom design, the Vampire fighter is quite easy to recognise, except from the swept wing Venom derivative. Other characteristics include triangular air intakes with vertical fences in the wing roots, a low mounted horizontal stabiliser, an outward retracting single wheel main gear and nose gear close to the tip of the nose.
The Diamond D-Jet is one of the few single-engine bizjets. The engine intakes are located in the wing roots, the single exhaust is underneath the rear fuselage. The cabin windows are the way to distinguish the D-Jet from jet trainer and fighter aircraft with the same configuration. (photo RuthAS/WikiMedia)
The Dornier Do228 commuter aircraft has the basic square fuselage of the Do28D, but with engines under the wings, a long nose and a twin wheel nose wheel configuration with retractable landing gear. Typical are the pointed (raked) wingtips and low tail.