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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 self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
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