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A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
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A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
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