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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 long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A very light twin jet developed from the Eclipse 500.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
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