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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 long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
The Stationair utility family, combining a high wing with fixed landing gear.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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