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The prototype Fly Baby first flew in 1962, becoming the winner of the Experimental Aircraft Association's 1962 design competition. [1] [2]Variants include a biplane version called the Bowers Bi-Baby or Fly Baby 1-B, [1] [2] a floatplane version, [1] and several dual-cockpit designs by various builders. [2]
The aircraft is a 75% scale version of the Bowers Fly Baby intended to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of 254 lb (115 kg). It can have a sufficiently low enough empty weight for that category when a light enough engine is fitted.
Bowers's amateur-built airplane design, the Fly Baby A Bowers Bi-Baby, this is the Fly Baby with the optional upper wing installed.. Peter M. Bowers (May 15, 1918 – April 27, 2003) was an American aeronautical engineer, airplane designer, and a journalist and historian specializing in the field of aviation.
The aircraft was a follow-on project to the designer's earlier Bowers Fly Baby design, if considerably larger; a low-wing cantilever monoplane with an inverted gull wing and fixed tailwheel undercarriage, designed to carry two persons (the Fly Baby was a single-seat aircraft). The Namu II accommodated a passenger seated beside the pilot.
A typical wood and fabric construction amateur-built, the Bowers Fly Baby. A Pietenpol Air Camper under construction, showing the wooden frame structure that will be covered with aircraft fabric . This is the oldest construction, seen in the first aircraft and hence the best known.
This category is for aircraft designed, manufactured or marketed by Peter M. Bowers. Pages in category "Bowers aircraft" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at its departure airport in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday morning after a bird allegedly struck the engine. “Mayday. Mayday. Mayday, American 1958 ...
The Baby Great Lakes was designed by Barney Oldfield, and originally built by Richard Lane, to be a scaled-down homebuilt derivative of the Great Lakes Sport Trainer. [2] The Baby Great Lakes is built using 136 ft (41.5 m) of steel tubing for the fuselage with aircraft fabric covering. [3] The wings use spruce spars.