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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 two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
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