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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 corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
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