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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 slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
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