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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 shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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