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An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
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An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
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 H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
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