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The Beriev A40 Albatross amphibian aircraft has an unusual configuration with jet engines on top of and behind the high wings. It has a long nose, stabilising floats near the wing tips, a bullet fairing on top of the vertical stabiliser and a main landing gear with four wheels. (photo: Mike Freer/WikiMedia)
After the failure of the Beriev A40 the company made a smaller version, designated Be-200. It has a short nose, engines with separate fan exhaust, no bullet fairing at the top of the tail and two wheel main landing gears.
The main characteristics of this twin vertical tail, twin engine fighter are the cropped delta shaped wings, wedge shaped air intakes at the side of the fuselage and bubble canopy. Distinctive compared to similar aircraft are the tops of the vertical stabilisers, with a sort of antennas pointing forward.
The outward tilted double vertical stabilisers of the Hornet are placed relatively far forward on the top fuselage, with long tail pipes extending beyond. Another distinctive feature are the leading edge root extentions of the wings, along the fuselage all the way up to the cockpit. The aircraft shows a large resemblance with the Northrop YF-17 Cobra, from which it was developed.
The first all-metal Boeing passenger aircraft is somewhat smaller than the famous Douglas DC-2/DC-3, but bigger than the Beech 18 and Lockheed 14 and 18. With all it shares the same external appearance, except for the tail. For easy recognition look for the single vertical stabiliser with its straight leading edge and curved trailing edge.
The Boeing 707 has a lot of different versions, civil and military. Nearly all can be easily recognised by the antenna pointing forward at the top of the vertical stabiliser. Also they share the cockpit windows with two eyebrow windows on each side, and the V-shaped low edge of the side windows.
The Boeing 717 was inherited from the merger with McDonnell-Douglas. It is clearly a DC-9/MD-80 derivative. It has an MD-87 like tail, and large diameter engine nacelles with singles exhausts.
To recognise this trijet airliner with three engines at the rear fuselage and a T-tail you can look for the typical Boeing nose with two eyebrow windows, and the two wheels on each main landing gear leg. The other aircraft in this category have four or six wheels on the main landing gear.
To distinguish the second, third and fourth generation Boeing 737 from similar twin jets look at the cockpit windows: these are the same as or similar to that of the Boeing 707 and 727. The older versions still have the two "eyebrow" windows above the normal cockpit windows. These 737s have a large triangular dorsal fin.
The first generation Boeing 737 has long nacelles under the wings, extending before the leading edge and beyond the trailing edge. For the rest it has the typical Boeing 707/727/737 nose with eyebrow windows, and a tall tail with hardly a dorsal fin.