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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 post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
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