The Fly Baby Home Page
While a single-seat airplane, the Fly Baby isn't small. It has a wingspan just two feet less than a Cessna 150. It's got a big cockpit. Pete Bowers is six feet two inches tall, and I weigh about 250 pounds. That gives you an idea of the range of sizes that can be accommodated.
FLY BABY is a structurally simple and easy-to-fly airplane designed to the requirements of the Experimental Aircraft Association for home construction and storage in a space 7' x 8' x 20', which is equivalent to the standard home garage.
Pete Bowers Centennial Fly Baby Reboot - BowersFlyBaby.com
2018年6月1日 · Over fifty years of Fly Baby flying has revealed some problems with the design. For the most part, nothing major... but the Fly Baby has the highest rate of in-flight structural failure among homebuilt aircraft in the US.
Fly Baby Two Seaters - BowersFlyBaby.com
While inspired by the Fly Baby, the design is quite different from the ordinary Fly Baby...note the aluminum-angle fuselage. Namu II Pete Bowers didn't ignore the people who wanted a two-seater.
Advice for Fly Baby Builders and Pilots - BowersFlyBaby.com
Advice for Fly Baby Builders and Pilots This page contains information of use to new or prospective builders or owners of Fly Babies. For more in-depth technical information, see the Fly Baby Tech Page .
The Fly Baby Biplane - BowersFlyBaby.com
The “1C” never happened…but the Fly Baby biplane (sometimes called the “Bi-Baby”) flew about six years later. People often refer to the Fly Baby biplane as the result of adding another wing to the monoplane.
Tech Talk for Fly Baby Builders/Owners - BowersFlyBaby.com
Technical information to assist Fly Baby builders and maintainers. Further assistance can be found on the Advice page. Building a Fly Baby from the free EAA articles; Wood Information; Airfoil Shape in Excel.
Fly Baby Photos Index Page - BowersFlyBaby.com
Some shots of the Fly Baby gang doing what they love most... The Fly Baby Biplane; Cat and Baby pictures! This is the internet, you know there are going to be cat and baby pictures.... Fly Baby Memes; My Favorite Fly Baby picture. Hans Teijgeler took this drop-dead-gorgeous sunset picture of PH-BRR.
Peter M. Bowers - BowersFlyBaby.com
Seattle author and Fly Baby designer Peter M. Bowers passed away in April of 2003, just two weeks short of his 85th birthday. The world may remember him as the author of 26 books and over a thousand aviation articles, but he and the Fly Baby were an integral part of the Pacific Northwest homebuilding scene for more than fifty years.
The Dale Weir Photo Collection - BowersFlyBaby.com
The Fly Baby is one of the few airplanes that can be flown as both a monoplane and a biplane. The two big monoplane wings are removed, and four new wing panels and a center section are added.