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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 European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
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