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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 rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
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