Fly Babies and Goodies For Sale
Updated 14 May 2011
Airplanes And Projects
Flying Aircraft For sale
Flying Aircraft Wanted
Projects, Engines, Components for Sale
Projects Wanted
Flying Aircraft
This is offered as a general service, no assessment of value or quality
should be assumed from being listed here. Please notify me when the
item
is no longer current. The dates in brackets are the dates the
information
was added to the page.
See my Buying Used Fly Babies page
for what to look for, when evaluating a flying aircraft.
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For Sale
Dave Clarke of Bellingham
Washington
has a Fly Baby for sale. 60 hp Franklin engine, smooth
running.
Folding wings, Stits fabric. No electrics. $6000.
[May
2008]
Ben
Kaufman of Provo Utah is selling his recently-completed Fly Baby as
their
new
Mooney is crowding it out of the hangar. It has ten hours
total time, and is
currently out of annual. It carries an A65 and Sensenich wood
prop
up front. Telephone: 801-319-3218. [Dec 2007]
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Wanted
Steve Borgess is looking for a flying Fly
Baby: monoplane, open
cockpit/open cowl, and with an excellent construction, maitenance,
ownership, and storage history. Pictures, price, and details to: swborgess@verizon.net. [August
2010]
Ben Seal is looking for
a flying Fly Baby monoplane or biplane. He'd prefer one with a
bigger
engine (C85, C-90, O-200, etc.) because he's got a short field.
He
lives in Sunshine, Louisiana (225) 936-0018. [December 2007]
Projects, Engines, and Components
For Sale
Larry Sherris and Jim
Marshall are finishing up two Fly Babies, and have a bunch of left
over/extra parts. This includes a fuselage, two partially completed
wings, a center section for a biplane wing and N struts, a tail
assembly, and a big box of metal parts. He would like to sell it
all together and would take $750 for all of it. I can send photos
to interested folks. 503 575 6246
Components or Projects Wanted
EAA Chapter 26 near St Louis seeks donation of Fly Baby project or
complete airplane for education and EAA promotion purposes. Will
provide a tax-deduction receipt for fair value of donation. Will
pick up project if needed. Contact Brian Kissinger,
eaachp64@yahoo.com, or call 618-632-3697 {Feb 2009]
WANTED:
Fly Baby Goodies
Roscoe
Patches
With Jeff Patnaude's permission, we took his flying baby artwork and
turned
it into a fantastic jacket patch. We've named the baby "Roscoe"
after
famed 1930s pilot Roscoe Turner, hence the term "Roscoe Patch".
"Roscoe"
was designed for Jeff by Pat
Moriarity.
Be advised: This not your wimpy little 3" shoulder
patch.
The goal was to duplicate the look of the squadrom patches worn on WWII
flying jackets. This patch is a big, bold, five inches in
diameter...it's
larger than the palm of your hand.
Years ago, I showed Pete Bowers the nose
art on my airplane, which was cribbed from a "Far Side"
cartoon.
Pete said he liked it because it included the original "Fly Baby"
lettering/nose
art from N500F. Hence, the new patch shows Roscoe atop the same
yellow
lettering on the red background, just like Pete had on the original
plane.
I'm asking $7 for the first patch, and $6 each for additional
patches
ordered at the same time. Email
me for the ordering address.
Decals
Want to
show your
"Fly Baby" colors? I've had some color peel-and-stick decals made
up. These are a red oval, about five inches across, with "Fly
Baby"
in the classic Pete Bowers script. You can see one in front of
the
cockpit of the plane in the picture.
You can put them on your airplane, your hangar door, your car
bumper,
your toolbox, whatever.
These are thermal prints on vinyl...they are not water soluable, and
they seem very resistant to fading (the one on my hangar door is still
bright and shiny). Price is $5 postpaid for the first one, and $4
for every additional one ordered at the same time. Email
me for the ordering address.
Installation Instructions: They're actually pretty
simple
to install. The decals come with backing paper on the back AND
the
front of the image. Clean off where you want to stick it, and let
it dry. Peel the decal apart...the tape protecting the BACK of
the
decal (the sticy side) will come away. Put the decal carefully in
place, and rub it down thoroughly with a fingertip or plastic
squeegee.
Then peel away the tape on the front.
Do-It-Yourself T-Shirts
The images that follow were the candidates for the Logo contest. With
an
ink-jet printer, you can make use these images to make iron-on
transfers
for your own T-Shirts. Right-click on the title of the images you
want, and select "Save Target As" or "Save Image As" (depends on your
browser).
Or you can click on the image itself, and then right-click it and
select
"save picture." The images range from 150K to 800K in size.
These images are mirrored since that's how you print on the T-shirt
transfer material. The material can be found at nearly any office
supply store (Office Depot, Stapes, Office Max, etc.). I'd buy a
pack of three T-shirts and count on wasting at least one on the first
try.
This was the winner of the contest...and Mr. Bowers' favorite,
as well
The formation contains a wide variety of Fly Baby variants, from the
original
prototype, to a biplane, to a plane with closed cowling and bubble
canopy,
and a Fly Baby floatplane. All the depictions are based on real
Fly
Babies, although the one shown on floats has never had floats
installed.
Some say this image isn't as dramatic as a T-Shirt since there's a lot
of open white space in the image.
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Nugyen's entry into the Fly Baby contest.
A combination of several ideas....
Other Fly Baby Stuff
I'm sorry, but this site tickles me so much I have to include it.
Back
in the "good old days," aviators of less-than-perfect vision could get
prescription
flying goggles . Looks like we STILL can, 'cept they're mostly
meant
for the motorcycle crowd.
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Available: Reprints of The Fly
Baby Bulletin
Back in the late '60s, Hayden Ferguson published a newsletter for Fly
Baby
builders. Hayden has kindly provided me with a clean copy of all
the newsletters, and permission to reprint them.
This are of pretty good interest to Fly Baby builders. There
are
a number of hints and suggestions, and a total of 200 pages (printed
double-sided,
so there are only 100 sheets). Be advised there is an equal
amount
of "What Joe Smith is working on now" sort of information...vital and
informative
when the newsletter is mailed out, but of less use to builders thirty
years
later. It's fun to read, though.
Anyway, I ran some copies for the Fly Baby mailing list members, and
have about five left. I'm selling these for $20, US Postage paid.
Email
me for ordering information.
These the bulletins are also available for
free download. A few hard copies are still available.
If
you prefer, I'll send you a CD with all the content for $5 (postpaid).
Questions? Email Ron
Wanttaja
.
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