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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.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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