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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 tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A small twin-engine amphibian that moved from business transport into military and utility service.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A radial-engine trainer that also served in combat and civilian warbird roles.
The turboprop-powered member of Beechcraft’s tandem-seat Mentor training family.
A utility piston twin designed for commuter and specialist transport missions.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
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