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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 four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
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