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O'Neil never flew his Pea Pod.He was competing with Ray Stitts and Robert H. Starr to fly the world's smallest airplane.Stitts and Starr co-operated in building three tiny airplanes.SA-1A Junior was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with short wing spanStitts Sky Baby was a conventional biplane with a mere 2.18 meter wing-span.Stitts' DS-1 Baby Bird was a conventional, high-wing monoplane with a wing span of only 1.91 meters that flew in 1984.Starr had helped Stitts build both of his tiny biplanes, but still believed that he could build an even smaller airplane. Starr's Bumble Bee II had three surfaces and a wing-span of only 1.68 meters. The configuration was a negative-staggered biplane with a T-tail. Bumble Bee II flew a few times during 1988 and earned the Guinness World Record for smallest airplane.
O'Neil never flew his Pea Pod.
He was competing with Ray Stitts and Robert H. Starr to fly the world's smallest airplane.
Stitts and Starr co-operated in building three tiny airplanes.
SA-1A Junior was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with short wing span
Stitts Sky Baby was a conventional biplane with a mere 2.18 meter wing-span.
Stitts' DS-1 Baby Bird was a conventional, high-wing monoplane with a wing span of only 1.91 meters that flew in 1984.
Starr had helped Stitts build both of his tiny biplanes, but still believed that he could build an even smaller airplane. Starr's Bumble Bee II had three surfaces and a wing-span of only 1.68 meters. The configuration was a negative-staggered biplane with a T-tail. Bumble Bee II flew a few times during 1988 and earned the Guinness World Record for smallest airplane.
