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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 tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
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