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A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
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A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
An early CRJ regional jet with rear-mounted engines and a small airliner flight deck.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A modern two-seat piston helicopter designed around the training role.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
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.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
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