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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 Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
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