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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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