Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A two-seat composite light-aircraft family with a high wing and a compact enclosed cabin.
An Italian light aircraft known for military training and aerobatic use.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
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