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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 airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
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