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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 side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
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