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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 French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
TorqueSim's Pocket Rocket, a simulated PT6-powered light aircraft with two gear layouts.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
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