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Ron
Wanttaja's N45848, dubbed "Moonraker," was built by a man
named Russell
in 1982. Ed Wischmeyer shot the air-to-air picture,
while his
wife
flew their Cessna 175. [November 2002]. The B-17 is
from the
Museum
of Flight in Seattle. See Also Mooraker's
Photo
Album |
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Jeff
Gray
sent in some pictures of Eric Whittred's Flybaby,
C-GWIZ.
GWIZ
sports a nose stretched two inches to accommodate Eric's six
foot three
frame. A sliding canopy makes Canadian winter flying
less of an
ordeal.
[November 2002] |
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Here's
a neat close-up of Jeremy
King
flying Carol and Kelly Leggette's Fly Baby. Jeff
Thomas sent the
other photo, showing this plane at a fly-in at Thomasville,
GA in
2007.
The FAA says this plane was built by Don Swords.
Jonathan
Mitchell bought it in June 2008.
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Mike
Proshold has another example of a Gee-Bee paint job on
his
plane.
[November 2002] |
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Thomas
Garrison sent a picture of his grandfather's old Fly
Baby.
Steve
Garrison built it in the '70s, and Thomas' father finally
sold it in
1988.
[November 2002] |
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Briton John Day
built a
classic
Fly Bay a number of years back, and it has graced several
magazine
covers.
He and his co-owner, Bob Gauld-Galliers, recently re-worked
their Fly
Baby
into something far different,
though.... |
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Bill
Turner
was legendary in the homebuilding community for building
replicas
of the race planes of the '30s. He was also a Fly Baby
fan.
Erich Pfalzer sent in some pictures of Turner's daughter,
Sara
Sweisberger's
Fly Baby, the "Flying Outhouse." |
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Wayne
Spani sent this picture of his Fly Baby parked in
front of a batch
of warbirds owned by a friend of his. Wayne's airplane
has an
O-235
Lycoming, and has flown over 1600 hours since its first
flight in 1979. |
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Jerry David sent
this
picture
of his Fly Baby biplane. You can read about his first
flight, too. As of 2014, this airplane was owned
by Al Hatz. He has removed the military markings, and
returned it to a "civilian" configuration. |
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John Fulton's Fly
Baby graced
the cover of EAA EXPERIMENTER in December 2001. This
picture was
taken during his 29th consecutive visit to the Oshkosh
Fly-In |