Pete Bowers' OTHER Other Homebuilt Project

Most of you are familiar with Pete Bowers' most famous design, the Fly Baby. Construction articles were published in EAA Sport Aviation from 1962 to 1964.

A few might be familiar with Pete's other homebuilt design, Namu. This was a large side-by-side two seater with inverted gull wings, that first flew in the 1970s.

But until today, I wasn't familiar with Pete's OTHER other homebuilt design. Turns out the Fly Baby articles were the SECOND set of construction articles written by Pete and published in Sport Aviation: The first was for a Fokker Triplane replica!

The series isn't that detailed, and it looks like Pete never finished it. But you can trace its development in the following issues:

March 1957
April 1958
March 1960
June 1960
May 1961
May 1962

You can, of course, download the articles from the archives if you are an EAA member.

Ron Wanttaja