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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 stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
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