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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 turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
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