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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
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