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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 swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A large amphibious flying boat built around maritime rescue and utility transport.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
A First World War trainer that became a familiar sight in the barnstorming era.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A specialised reconnaissance aircraft designed for very high altitude and sustained supersonic flight.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
A four-seat kit-built touring aircraft that expanded the RV family beyond two-seat designs.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
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