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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.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
Regional flying built around a high wing, two turboprops and short sectors.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
Airbus's first production aircraft, built around a twin-engine wide-body layout.
A rear-engined trijet built to bring jet service to shorter routes and smaller airports.
A compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A compact two-seat light aircraft with a high wing and a wide range of development variants.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
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