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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 two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
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