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Davis DA-2 at Airventure 2008. Davis DA-2A. The Davis DA-2 is a light aircraft designed in the United States in the 1960s and was marketed for homebuilding. [1] While it is a low-wing monoplane of largely conventional design with fixed tricycle undercarriage, the DA-2 is given a distinctive appearance by its slab-like fuselage construction and its V-tail. [2]
Flivver 2A (Flivver 3218) The third prototype was larger with a 22 ft (6.7 m) wingspan, had a fabric-covered steel frame, featured wing struts, a 50-gallon fuel tank, a dihedral increase, and a custom 143-cubic-inch (2,340 cm 3) Ford designed, horizontally opposed two-cylinder engine using Wright Whirlwind components that produced 40-horsepower ...
Leeon D. Davis (March 9, 1930 – April 7, 2007) was an American aircraft designer, noted for his homebuilt aircraft. Davis started building aircraft models at the age of six. Davis graduated with a high school education and a correspondence course in drafting and engineering from the Ryan Aeronautical Institute.
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The Davis DA-5, a.k.a. DA-5A, is a single-seat sport aircraft designed in the United States in the 1970s and marketed for homebuilding. Like designer Leeon D. Davis 's successful DA-2 , it is a low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage and a V-tail , but with a much narrower fuselage accommodating only the pilot, and a lengthened nose.
However, in various interviews and publications since, Miles Davis has claimed to be the composer. [2] [3] Among these is a statement Davis made in his autobiography: "I wrote a tune for the album called 'Donna Lee', which was the first tune of mine that was ever recorded. But when the record came out, it listed Bird [Parker] as the composer.
In the middle of the third chorus of her first song, an overworked Davis collapsed. Revived by her then-husband Gary Merrill , she walked to the apron of the stage and with a smile commented to the audience, "Well, you can't say I didn't fall for you!," winning over both them and the critics, whose reviews were kind.
"Woody 'n' You" is a 1942 jazz standard written by Dizzy Gillespie as an homage to Woody Herman.It was one of three arrangements Gillespie made for Herman's big band, although it was not used at the time; the other two were "Swing Shift" and "Down Under".