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  2. Ace Baby Ace - Wikipedia

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    1958 Baby Ace 1965 Baby Ace Model D 1974 Baby Ace EAA Mechanix Illustrated Baby Ace. The Ace Baby Ace, a single-seat, single-engine, parasol wing, fixed-gear light airplane, was marketed as a homebuilt aircraft when its plans were first offered for sale in 1929 — one of the first homebuilt aircraft plans available in the United States.

  3. Walter E. Mooney - Wikipedia

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    Walter E. Mooney (June 6, 1925 – March 1, 1990) was a MIT educated engineer, aircraft designer, pilot and model aircraft designer who lived in San Diego, California.He was well known professionally for his full scale aircraft efforts for Convair division of General Dynamics but more popularly known for the many plans and articles published in the magazines Model Airplane News, Boys' Life ...

  4. GE Aerospace - Wikipedia

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    General Electric Company, doing business as GE Aerospace, [5] is an American aircraft engine supplier that is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati.It is the legal successor to the original General Electric Company founded in 1892, which split into three separate companies between November 2021 and April 2024, adopting the trade name GE Aerospace after divesting its healthcare ...

  5. River Works - Wikipedia

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    That year, the company merged with Edison General Electric to become General Electric (GE). [2] By 1894, the Lynn plant was known as the "river works" after its position along the Saugus River. [3] The factory was expanded in 1943 as a supercharger facility (Air Force Plant No. 29), and helped to build the first jet engine during World War II ...

  6. Ryan XV-5 Vertifan - Wikipedia

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    The J85 and lift-fan combination was a precursor to developments which led to the first GE high BPR engine, the TF-39. [4] The lift fans were driven by turbine blades mounted around the periphery of the fan, with mass flow 13 times greater than the gas generators mass flow and increased thrust 3 times over that available using a propelling nozzle.

  7. Pietenpol Air Camper - Wikipedia

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    The plans for the Pietenpol Aircamper were originally published in a four-part serial in the "Flying and Glider" Manual of 1932-33. [4] [5] The original model was flown using an Ace four cylinder water-cooled engine. [4] The Model A Ford engine later became the standard powerplant used; the design was first flown with one in May 1929. [1]

  8. Free flight (model aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    F1B Model by Stepan Stepanchuk. Free flight is the segment of model aviation involving aircraft with no active external control after launch. Free Flight is the original form of hobby aeromodeling, with the competitive objective being to build and launch a self controlling aircraft that will consistently achieve the longest flight duration over multiple competition rounds, within various class ...

  9. Light Miniature Aircraft LM-1 - Wikipedia

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    The Light Miniature Aircraft LM-1, LM-2 and LM-3 are a family of American high wing, conventional landing gear, strut-braced, single engine ultralight aircraft that are scale reproductions of famous general aviation aircraft. The designs were all available as plans from Light Miniature Aircraft of Okeechobee, Florida for amateur construction ...