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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 low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
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