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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 American 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.
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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.
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British Airways is overhauling its loyalty program to reward spending instead of miles flown. It will offer more chances to get points while making status harder to achieve for leisure travelers.