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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 specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
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