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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 carbon-fibre aerobatic monoplane family with a dedicated air-racing branch.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A late-1930s cabin aircraft with metal construction and retractable landing gear.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A streamlined light twin helicopter, with the later Bell 230 in the same family.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A personal jet with one engine above the rear fuselage and a distinctive V-tail.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
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