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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.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted 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, pressurised kit aircraft with a composite airframe and retractable landing gear.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A side-by-side two-seat sailplane with a retractable powerplant for self-launching.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
The H130 utility helicopter, descended from the AS350 and fitted with a Fenestron.
A close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A low-wing agricultural Cessna with a cockpit and hopper arranged around the job.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
A compact regional turboprop with a pressurised cabin for up to 19 passengers.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
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