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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 retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
A composite, low-wing touring single with fixed gear and a turbocharged engine.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
An experimental French helicopter with two coaxial, counter-rotating rotors.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
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