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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 Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A jet-powered military transport designed for both strategic loads and tactical airfield access.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
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