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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
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