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Fly Baby A Bowers Bi-Baby, this is the Fly Baby with the upper wing installed A Bowers Bi-Baby, front view. The Bowers Fly Baby is a homebuilt, single-seat, open-cockpit, wood and fabric low-wing monoplane that was designed by famed United States aircraft designer and Boeing historian, Peter M. Bowers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Construction of the aircraft was started in the mid-1960s starting with a model rather than a drawing. Ol' Ironsides first flew on 22 November 1969 with a Continental C-85 engine sourced from a Cessna 140. In 1985 the prototype aircraft was restored and re-engined with a Continental O-200 and Sterba wooden propeller. [3]
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 ...
Boeing 334 four-engine very long range heavy bomber with H-2420 engines in tractor configuration buried in ... (Peter M Bowers, Seattle, WA) Bowers Fly Baby; Bowers ...