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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 simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
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