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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 carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
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