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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.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
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