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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 long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
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