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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 composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
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