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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 composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A two-seat composite trainer with a low wing and a large canopy.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A composite amphibian that carries Dornier's centreline engine arrangement into the turboprop era.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A utility-aircraft family whose stretched 207 branch trades compact proportions for more cabin space.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A long-haul twin whose family spans passenger, freight and specialist transport roles.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
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