Bowers Flybaby built in 1977. 

This looks almost exactly like the little Flybaby Experimental my dad finished in 1969. I can remember him working on it all during my years in high school. Dad's wasn't wrapped in metal. When he was done with the frame, he took it all to an aviation class at Warrensburg, MO where the class wrapped it in silk and painted it yellow. Dad was a pilot in the Air Force during the Korean War. He was in a class of pilots that got to fly the first jets for the Air Force. When I was a teenager, Dad got his private pilots license and started building this little plane. He flew it about 5 times before he went out of remission for Leukemia. After he died, mom sold the plane. My daughter found it still flying in Kansas as a little crop-duster. Fifty-two years in service. So proud.

Excellent videography. Very short takeoff roll I thought.

'77 -- Ten years young than my Cessna 150!

What a pretty aircraft. Makes me want to build and fly my RC model soon.

Great stories! Good detailed overview of the Fly Baby.

great job. love the flybaby

Peter Bowers had a winner with the Fly Baby,a chap in the UK built one and eventually made a biplane wing too,lovely little aircraft.

Great video. I'm thinking of buying a set of plans and building a Fly Baby myself and your video provides some useful tips...

Beautiful Bird!

Thats funny. I was just watching an RC video of a 1/3 scale fly baby as he folded the wings and put it in his minivan. So this video pops up and I'm looking saying to myself that this guy did a better job of the landing gear because the wheels were too far out from the triangular struts on the last model and even made scale looking brakes. Pretty cool. Boy the hinges on the LG looks right too. I think the cowl looks a litle cobbled together but.. Hey whoa. It's a real plane. Duh.

my freind back home converted his flybaby into a biplae real one.

Best viewed on full screen.

Looks fantastic! The Fly Baby is a classic that deserves all the kudos it receives, and then some. Regarding your mention of wing failures, weren't they primarily due to people substituting solid flying wires for the cable originally specified?

I really enjoy watching your videos! I'm planning to build a plane in the near future, but I'm torn between a Flybaby or a Pietenpol Air Camper. I would like to take a friend up once in a while, but it still doesn't take the flybaby out of the question. Or do you have any other suggestions? This will be my first plane and I hope you can provide me some guidance.

I cropdusted outta Brownwood, Texas

I’m 6’5” and tried to sit in a fly baby, it didn’t work out lol

Hi, just got a FB 1B built (finished) in 78......N78FP. What glue system was it built with? I'm trying to get a feel for how these 45yr old birds hold up. Thanks!! I put some videos on RU-vid at Jimmyboy163!!

Where are yall