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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.
The tip-tanked turbofan Learjets, combining the classic compact airframe with longer range and careers in business, military and medical flying.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
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