Pitts Special
Mr. Curtis Pitts Pitts Special Development and History Curtis Pitts began the design of a single-seat aerobatic biplane in 1943-44. The design has been refined continuously since the prototype’s first flight in September 1944; however, the current Pitts S2 still remains quite close to the original concept in design. All single-seat (S-1) and two seats […]
Penguin
The penguin is an aquatic, flightless bird mostly found in the southern hemisphere. Because the designer of this airplane device knew that this machine would never fly it was given the Penguin name! The aileron, elevator, and rudder surfaces and controls on this device are a close mimic of a real airplane as are the […]
Peel Z-1 Glider Boat
During the 1930’s, the Peel Glider Boat Company of Flushing Bay, New York, designed the glider boat. This aircraft is a biplane glider with a stepped flying boat hull Peel Z-1 advertisement picture shape and wingtip floats. The two occupants sit in tandem in an open cockpit with conventional controls, but without any instruments. The […]
Marske Pioneer II
Designed by Jim Marske, the first Pioneer flew in 1968. The design features a fixed monowheel landing gear, wings of wood and fabric, and a fuselage of fiberglass. The wingspan measured 42.64 feet to allow the wings to be built in a standard 20-foot deep garage. The roll control utilized conventional ailerons, with upper wing […]
Marketello Stahltaube (Steel Dove)
The aircraft on display here at the museum (N1381N) is a flyable ¾ scale model of the original that was designed and built by Ignaz Etrich an Austro-Hungarian engineer. Joel A. Marketello built our museum aircraft and equipped it with a Continental A50 (50 HP) engine. The documents the museum received with this aircraft indicate […]
Globe Swift
Globe Swift The Globe Aircraft Corporation was originally formed as the Bennett Aircraft Corporation with the intention of manufacturing airplanes from Duraloid, a phenol-formaldehyde Bakelite-bonded plywood. In 1941 the company was reorganized and the name was changed to Globe Aircraft Corporation. The first product of the re-constituted company was a small two-seat low-wing cabin […]
Bowlus/Nelson BB-1 Dragonfly
The Dragonfly is an American, two-seat, strut-braced, high wing, motorized glider developed from the Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross glider which was also designed by William Hawley Bowlus. If you look at the two aircraft you will see the similarities. The obvious external difference between the two is the addition of the pusher engine and […]