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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 late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
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