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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.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
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