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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 four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
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