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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 streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A tandem two-seat sailplane family used for training and cross-country soaring.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
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