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Cross was born in Camberwell, London on 23 April 1924. [2] He was mainly self-taught, learning his craft at the Camberwell School of Art and as a technical illustrator for training manuals for Fairey Aviation during the Second World War.
The Playboy was the third of fifteen different aircraft designs created by Stits, who migrated in the 1960s from selling plans to developing the Polyfiber line of aircraft coverings and related paint formulas. [citation needed] The Playboy was designed to be constructed from either plans or from a series of partial kits.
Paint can weigh up to 1,000 lb (450 kg) per aircraft. [1] Decals and/or stickers are used for geometrically challenging elements such as titles and logos. To paint an A380, 24 painters were needed over two weeks to apply 2,300 L (610 US gal) of paint in five coats for British Airways, to cover 3,500 m 2 (38,000 sq ft) with 650 kg (1,430 lb). [2]
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.
Katherine Stinson and her Curtiss airplane.. Katherine Stinson (February 14, 1891 – July 8, 1977) was an American aviation pioneer who, in 1912, became the fourth woman in the United States to earn the FAI pilot certificate.
Lilian Bland (28 September 1878 – 11 May 1971) [1] [2] was an Anglo-Irish journalist and pioneer aviator who, in 1910–11, became one of the first women in Great Britain and Ireland, and maybe even in the world, to design, build, and fly an aircraft – the Bland Mayfly.
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout (January 7, 1906 – January 24, 2003) was an early American aviator and endurance flying record holder. Trout began her aviation career at the age of 16; however, her first solo flight and solo certificate was not until April 30, 1928. [1]
The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War.Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat to see service, making it the world's first operational fighter aircraft.