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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 self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
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