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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 side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A flyable interpretation of Testors’ 1980s speculative stealth-fighter design.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
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