Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A twin-turbine Huey descendant with a four-blade main rotor.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A fixed-wing observation aircraft with a helicopter-like view from its glazed nose.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
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