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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 corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
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