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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 twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
Epic's experimental light-jet project, represented in simulation by Aerobask.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
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