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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 tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
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