Edgley EA-7 Optica ↗
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
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A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
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