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A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
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A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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