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Saturday
Apr282012

Caption Contest #73 Winner - Blueprints Edition

 Congrats to 'Charles' for coming up with the winning caption this time around... I hope you'll be coming to OSH12 to claim your bacon sandwich prize! And thanx again to Jo (@futureshox) for pointing me to this retro pic of the incredible Stits Sky Baby. The world's-smallest-airplane from it's first flight in 1952 until the 1980's. The Sky Baby is one of the most unique airplanes ever built, and if you hop in your car (or airplane) and head to Oshkosh you can go check the little gem out at the EAA Museum. It's always one of my favorite items to inspect every time I go to the museum.

 I'll do a post one of these days looking at the history of the world's smallest airplanes over the years... but for now I'll just say that, in my mind,  the Sky Baby is definitely the best looking of the ultra micro flying machines ever made. And it's really cool seeing this picture of it complete but still only in the silver coats.

Thanx again to everyone for playing along with the AirPigz Caption Contest. More of this harmless avgeek fun will surface on a Monday morning before long!

 

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