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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.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
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