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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 long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A self-launching sailplane family with its engine inside the fuselage and a folding nose propeller.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A high-wing light sport aircraft with a broad glazed cabin and tricycle landing gear.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A tailwheel utility single built around a high wing and a substantial working cabin.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A single-seat competition sailplane offered in Standard and 18-metre configurations.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A low-wing piston family that spans simple trainers, touring aircraft and retractable-gear Arrows.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
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