Lockheed SR-71 ↗
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
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A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
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