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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 side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
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