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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
Tecnam's four-seat high-wing single, built with metal and carbon-fibre components.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
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