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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 composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
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