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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.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
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