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A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
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A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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