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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 light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
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