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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 four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
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