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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 stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
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