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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.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
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