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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.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
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