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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 streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
The Mitchell medium bomber, named for aviation advocate Billy Mitchell.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
RotorWay's two-seat kit-helicopter family, with piston and turbine simulator interpretations.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A pressurised regional airliner with a high wing and two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
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