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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 three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
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