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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.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A narrow-body twin developed as a new generation of medium-range airliner.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
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