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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 small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
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