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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.
Under its Fly Baby entry, Jane's All The World's Aircraft, 1964–1965, says of Bowers: Mr. Peter Bowers, an aeronautical engineer with Boeing in Seattle, is a principal source of detailed information on vintage aircraft in the United States, and has provided much of the data for a number of replicas of 1914-18 War aircraft now under ...
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.
This category is for aircraft designed, manufactured or marketed by Peter M. Bowers. Pages in category "Bowers aircraft" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
This is a list of aircraft in alphabetical order beginning with 'Bf' through 'Bo'. ... (Peter M Bowers, Seattle, WA) Bowers Fly Baby; Bowers Bi-Baby; Bowers Namu II;
The Model 8 first flew in 1920, and was the first aircraft to fly over Mount Rainier. ... Bowers, Peter M. Boeing aircraft since 1916. London: Putnam Aeronautical ...
In 1961, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first trans-continental flight, aviation historian and Boeing aeronautical engineer Peter M. Bowers built a reproduction of the Vin Fiz. Built to airworthy standards, the plane was flown as a towed glider, and subsequently became a display in the San Diego Air and Space Museum , where it ...