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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 modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A purpose-built aerobatic monoplane family developed by pilot and designer Walter Extra.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
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