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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
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Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
Avro's delta-wing bomber, developed for Britain's postwar strategic force.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
Diamond's four-seat light twin, developed with diesel-powered versions.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A late member of the Nieuport V-strut scout family, remembered both as a First World War fighter and as an advanced trainer.
A family of single-aisle airliners built around sidesticks, electronic flight controls and a shared cockpit.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
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