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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.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
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