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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 stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
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