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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]
His first flight lasted 12 seconds for a total distance of 120 ft (37 m) – shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747. [2] [14] Taking turns, the Wrights made four brief, low-altitude flights that day. The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended landing.
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The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...
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.
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