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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.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
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