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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 long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
Cirrus's first type-certified aircraft, a composite piston single.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
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