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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 five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
The fixed-gear, six-cylinder touring branch of Piper's PA-28 family.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Two related Dutch regional jets developed from the F28 lineage.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
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