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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 long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A compact Australian wartime fighter built around a radial engine.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A two-seat composite kit aircraft developed from the Lancair 320.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
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