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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.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A tandem-seat light aircraft with a streamlined low-wing layout.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A tandem-seat canard homebuilt with a pusher engine and distinctive winglets.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A four-bladed utility helicopter developed from the LongRanger lineage.
Embraer's regional-jet family, from the ERJ 135 to the longer ERJ 145.
TorqueSim's Pocket Rocket, a simulated PT6-powered light aircraft with two gear layouts.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
The four-engine Flying Fortress, a major American bomber of the Second World War.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A four-seat composite touring and training aircraft developed from Diamond's smaller two-seater.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
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