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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 pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
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