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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 military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A high-wing twin turboprop developed for regional freight and passenger transport.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
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