• Small red and white airplane with "World's Smallest" inscription on the side.
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    On a dare from another pilot, Ray Stits designed and built the Sky Baby at his home in Riverside, California, to prove that he could build the world's smallest man-carrying airplane. To keep the overall dimensions of the SA-2A as small as possible, Stits chose a biplane layout with negative-stagger, full-cantilever wings, and a conventional, cruciform empennage.

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Dane Penland

Date Created

02/04/2014

Source

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Aircraft; Aviation; Homebuilt; Private

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