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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.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A wide-cabin business-jet family that developed from Canadair's original Challenger programme.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
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