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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 single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
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