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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 single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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