Bishop RB-1 Ray's Rebel

RB-1 Ray's Rebel
Role Two-seat homebuilt light aircraft
National origin United States
Designer Ray Bishop
First flight 28 March 1970
Number built 1


The RB-1 Ray's Rebel is an American two-seat light sporting aircraft designed and built by Ray Bishop of Norton, Ohio.[1]

Design and development

The Ray's Rebel is a braced low-wing monoplane with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in fabric.[1] The wing is an all-wood construction covered with Ceconite, it has endplates on the wing tips and frise-type ailerons but has no flaps or trim tabs.[1] Ray's Rebel is powered by a 125 hp (93 kW) Lycoming O-290-G air-cooled piston engine driving a two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller.[1] The landing gear is a fixed tailwheel type with a glassfibre fairing over the wheel.[1] The enclosed cockpit has two side-by-side configuration seats under a rearward-sliding canopy.[1] Bishop started designing the aircraft in October 1954 and started construction in February 1955, fifteen years later it was completed and now registered N971RB. Roy's Rebel first flew on 28 March 1970.[1]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74[1]

General characteristics

Performance


References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Taylor 1973, p. 271

Bibliography

  • Taylor, ed. (1973). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74. London, United Kingdom: Jane's Yearbooks. ISBN 0-354-00117-5.  |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
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