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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 long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
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