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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 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.
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.
Pages in category "Aircraft first flown in 1962" ... Bowers Fly Baby; Bristol 188; British Aerospace 125; C. Cessna 160; Cessna 206; Cessna 411; Ciani Eventuale ...
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.
A Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a school in England gave birth to 14 babies last month, despite having no contact with another snake for nearly a decade.
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 ]