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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.
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 aeronautical engineer, airplane designer, and a journalist and historian specializing in the field of aviation.
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.
Pages in category "Bowers aircraft" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Bowers Fly Baby; N. Bowers Namu II This page was ...
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Baby Briggs has been on more than 65 flights to 16 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as five countries, so Jess is a seasoned pro when it comes to flying with baby.
Pages in category "Aircraft first flown in 1962" ... Bowers Fly Baby; Bristol 188; British Aerospace 125; C. Cessna 160; Cessna 206; Cessna 411; Ciani Eventuale ...