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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 heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
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