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The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane. [1]
Ray Stits designed 14 different homebuilt aircraft kits that were some of the first available to the general public built in quantity. [2] Stits is also known to the general public as the maker of the Stits Junior, Stits SA-2A Sky Baby, [3] and Stits Baby Bird, each of which was once the world's smallest aircraft. [4]
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Bumble Bee II crashed and was destroyed during its 3rd flight on May 5, 1988. [1] At 400 feet of altitude, [6] the engine failed on a down-wind leg. [7] The crash destroyed the Bumble Bee II and severely injured Robert Starr, [1] who made a full recovery. [6]
The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended landing. The last flight, by Wilbur, covered 852 ft (260 m) in 59 seconds, much longer than each of the three previous flights of 120, 175 and 200 feet (37, 53 and 61 m) in 12, 12, and 15 seconds respectively.
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Analysis of the flight afterward indicated that 15-20 power strokes is the limit of endurance for the pilot. [14] The validity of the record claim has been disputed due to prior claims and, apparent in Reichert's flight data, a downward trend in total energy and airspeed during the 19.3 second interval claimed as a sustained flight. [16]
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Fledging is the stage in a flying animal's life between hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight. This term is most frequently applied to birds , but is also used for bats . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For altricial birds, those that spend more time in vulnerable condition in the nest , the nestling and fledging stage can be the same.