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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 super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A cabin-class piston twin designed for commuter, cargo and utility work.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
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