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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 compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
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