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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 large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
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