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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.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
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