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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 military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
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