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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 corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
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