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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.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
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