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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 low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A light amphibian with a hull, retractable wheels and a pusher propeller.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A twin-turboprop regional airliner developed through Swedish and American industrial cooperation.
SOCATA's touring-aircraft family, including the Tobago and Trinidad.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
A four-seat, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
A two-seat touring motorglider with interchangeable wing tips.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
Lockheed's wide-body TriStar, with three RB211 engines and a distinctive tail intake.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
A simulated twin-turbine helicopter that explores no-tail-rotor anti-torque control.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A modern medium twin-engine helicopter developed as a successor to the Dauphin line.
A simulator-designed very light jet using the Citation Mustang as a reference.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
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