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The prototype Fly Baby first flew in 1962, becoming the winner of the Experimental Aircraft Association's 1962 design competition. [1] [2]Variants include a biplane version called the Bowers Bi-Baby or Fly Baby 1-B, [1] [2] a floatplane version, [1] and several dual-cockpit designs by various builders. [2]
The Duane's Hangar Ultrababy (sometimes Ultra Baby) is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Duane Patrick and produced by Duane's Hangar of Liberty, South Carolina, introduced about 1997. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction.
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 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.
Sikorsky S-43 Baby Clipper: Civil NC16934: On outdoor display Snow S-2A: Civil N3695F: On outdoor display Starr Bumble Bee: Civil N83WS: On indoor display Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle: Civil N1001U: On outdoor display Taylorcraft BC-12D: Civil N43584: On indoor display Ryan-Temco D-16 Twin Navion: Civil N5128K: On outdoor display Vickers ...
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.
The maximum range condition is obtained at maximum lift/drag ratio (L/DMAX) The maximal total range is the maximum distance an aircraft can fly between takeoff and landing. Powered aircraft range is limited by the aviation fuel energy storage capacity (chemical or electrical) considering both weight and volume limits. [1]
The airport was initially established as Longview Flying Field in 1924. It became J.D. Hill Airport in 1928, then Latrobe Airport in 1935. [8]On April 12, 1939, it became the site of the world’s first official airmail "Air Pick Up", where a Stinson Reliant aircraft successfully collected a mail container suspended between two poles without landing.