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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 two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
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