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The Bumble Bee II was designed and built by Robert H. Starr in Phoenix, Arizona with the intent of breaking the record for the world's smallest biplane. [1] Before building the Bumble Bee II, Starr had been deeply involved with the development of previous aircraft holding the title of "world's smallest airplane".
Robert H. Starr (February 6, 1924 – June 15, 2009) [1] was the designer, builder and pilot of The World's Smallest Piloted Biplane Airplane, the Starr Bumble Bee II. [2] The Guinness Book of Records awarded The Bumble Bee the official world record title in 1985 and with the flight of the Bumble Bee II, the record still stands today 2022.
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]
World's first mass-produced supersonic aircraft. 2,500 built in Soviet Union. Also built in China (~3,000) and Czechoslovakia. Sopwith Camel: M: Biplane, fighter 5,497 United Kingdom: 1917: 1918: Mil Mi-2: M: Helicopter, utility 5,497 Soviet Union: 1965: 1985 Built in Poland. Cessna AT-17 Bobcat: C/M: Utility / Multi-engine trainer 5,422 United ...
The aircraft was eventually donated to the National Air and Space Museum for display. [2] Ray Stits was a mechanic and Second World War fighter pilot, but claimed he was not an engineer. He went on to develop several home-built designs, including the Stits SA-3A Playboy , which would be the basis for the VanGrunsven RV-1 and thousands of Van's ...
Only a prototype registration NX90840 was built, and the type did not enter production. The prototype was destroyed when the original San Diego Air and Space Museum burned down in 1978. [ 2 ] After the fire, a replica was built and is now on display at the new San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park .
The sample size was small (just over 700 pups out of the 65 million pet dogs in the U.S.), but only 66% of small breeds were housetrained, compared to 95% of large breeds.
The Bede BD-5 Micro is a series of small, single-seat homebuilt aircraft created in the late 1960s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede and introduced to the market primarily in kit form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.