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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.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
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