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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 twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
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