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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]
First transpacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross (31 May – 9 Jun 1928); [174] [nb 31] first non-stop Australian transcontinental flight (Aug 1928); [175] first trans-Tasman flight (10/11 Sep 1928); [175] († disappeared) Lady Southern Cross, over the Bay of Bengal. [176] Sir Thomas Sopwith: 18 Jan 1888 27 ...
The first such feature to be noted was the supposed similarity between the foot of Archaeopteryx and that of modern perching birds. The hallux , or modified of the first digit of the foot, was long thought to have pointed posterior to the remaining digits, as in perching birds.
Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson (November 4, 1909 – May 10, 2012), nicknamed "Mama Bird", was the world's oldest flight instructor, and -- at one point -- the pilot with the highest number of flying hours in the world, of any living pilot.
The first flight, by Orville at 10:35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph. [42] The next two flights covered approximately 175 and 200 feet (53 and 61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively.
[10] [13] The record flight was observed by a certified official from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), [10] and GPS data detailing the altitude and length of flight were given to the organization for certification. [10] Snowbird flew for 19.3 seconds in a straight-and-level powered flight run under human power alone.
His first flight lasted 12 seconds for a total distance of 120 ft (37 m) – shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. [2] [14] Taking turns, the Wrights made four brief, low-altitude flights that day. The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended landing.
USPTO trading card featuring Bird. Forrest Morton Bird (June 9, 1921 – August 2, 2015) was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer.He is best known for having created some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care.