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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.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A six-engine flying boat created for long-distance passenger travel over water.
A super-midsize business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated glass cockpit.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
The retractable member of Beechcraft’s Musketeer family: a roomy, four-cylinder travelling aircraft with an unusually large baggage door.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A British utility twin built around short regional and practical transport work.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A vast inter-war flying boat with twelve engines arranged in six paired installations.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A stretched development of the DC-9 with rear-mounted engines and a five-abreast cabin.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A low-wing piston twin that carries the Beechcraft touring-aircraft lineage into two-engine flying.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A lightweight short-field aircraft with a specialised wing and tall, shock-absorbing landing gear.
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