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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.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
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