In 1989, Cory Bird was a shop fabricator at Scaled Composites, aviation designer Burt Rutan’s company, when he decided to use his knowledge of composite construction to build the Bird Symmetry.
The 53-year-old Bird, a project manager at Scaled, was hard at work on another design for a plane that will carry two and land on shorter airstrips than Symmetry.
In 1928 the Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corporation was founded to manufacture a three-seat open cockpit commercial biplane known as the Bird biplane. In March 1929 the Bird Aircraft Corporation was incorporated, with William E. Winkle as vice-president, to continue production of the Bird biplane with a variety of engines ranging from 100- 165 hp.
2008:1455 Crest Way, Ontario, OR 97914, USA.
LSA builder
Germany
In conjunction with Schempp-Hirth KG, Binder Aviatik KG began production in 1966 of the CP 301 S Smaragd. Built under license, this aircraft was a deluxe version of the Piel Emeraude.
Bilsam Aviation is a company that utilises the talant from Polish Military and Glider industry. The first aircraft being introduced was the Sky Cruiser LSA
Eardley Delauny Billing was born in 1873 in Kensington, London, the son of Charles Eardley Billing, a Birmingham iron-founder, and his wife, Annie Emilia Claridge, and the elder brother of Noel Pemberton Billing.
The Billing tractor biplane was constructed at Brooklands during 1911. Billing was, at that time, in charge of the Lane Gliding School at Brooklands and for a brief period at the begining of 1912 was in charge of the Deperdussin School at Brooklands.
Billing had previously made a ground trainer, the Eardley Billing Oscillator, at Brooklands which was exhibited at the Stanley Show in November 1910.
Eardley Billing died in Colchester in December 1915.
First flew in November 1990 the prototype of the LT-IIM Swati two-seat metal/wood monoplane, designed by the Technical Centre of Directorate General of Civil Aviation in India, which received certification in 1992 and is marketed.
Paraglider builder circa 1998
Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) of Munich, was organised around the former Otto Werke in 1916.
FK-Lightplanes is a product of B&F Technik Vertriebs GmbH. Production of the airframes takes place in Krosno, Poland; assembly of the airframes and the final production of the aircraft in the factory in Speyer in Germany. Otto Funk (=FK) designed in 1959 on behalf of Heinkel in Speyer the metal glider Greif 1a (FK1). This was the start of a range of light aircraft developed by the Funk family.
To build the FK9 Peter Funk and Dirk Breitkreuz founded in 1990 the company B&F Technik.
1998:
am Neuen Rheinhafen I0
D-67346 Speyer/Rhein
Germany
All Aero 