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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 British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
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