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The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane. [1]
Ray Stits designed 14 different homebuilt aircraft kits that were some of the first available to the general public built in quantity. [2] Stits is also known to the general public as the maker of the Stits Junior, Stits SA-2A Sky Baby, [3] and Stits Baby Bird, each of which was once the world's smallest aircraft. [4]
First flight of a parasite or composite airplane: A Felixstowe Porte Baby carried aloft and then launched a Bristol Scout while in flight on May 17, 1916. [ 120 ] First air-to-air rocket attack to down an aircraft : Eight aces including Nungesser downed six observation balloons on May 22, 1916 while flying Nieuport 16s armed with Le Prieur ...
The Sky Baby was designed by Ray Stits and built with Robert H. Starr as a follow-on to the Stits Junior midget racer. The aircraft is an enclosed single engine negative staggered cantilevered biplane with conventional landing gear. The fuselage is constructed of welded steel tubing with aircraft fabric covering.
American Airlines passengers feared for their lives Thursday when a bird flew into the engine of their outbound LaGuardia flight — forcing the plane to quickly make an emergency touchdown at the ...
Loonlets are born brownish-black puffballs who get protection from their parents by riding on the backs, as seen in this video, for the first few weeks, warm under their parents' wings.
All birds are considered to have fledged when the feathers and wing muscles are sufficiently developed for flight. A young bird that has recently fledged but is still dependent upon parental care and feeding is called a fledgling. People often want to help fledglings, as they appear vulnerable, but it is best to leave them alone. [4]
An American Airlines flight departing New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday evening had to divert to nearby John F. Kennedy International shortly after takeoff after a reported bird strike ...