Ace Baby Ace

Original The Baby Ace is a single-seat parasol wing monoplane of conventional taildragger configuration. Individual examples have been configured with tricycle landing gear. The wing uses a Clark Y-cross-section airfoil; spars and ribs are spruce. The steel-tube parallel wings struts simplified internal wing structure, and enabled the wings to fold back for over-the-road towing. Most versions flying today use the Continental A65 aircraft engine. Examples have been built using Corvair engines. ==Operational history==

The original Baby Ace was built in 1929, in Topeka, Kansas. Designer O.G. ("Ace") Corben later established the Corben Sportplane Company (Madison, Wisconsin), where six Baby Aces were built, with kits also sold. The Corben Sport Plane and Supply Co. (Peru, Indiana), began producing the Baby Ace both in kit form and as a complete, flying aircraft. Kits included pre-welded assemblies for the fuselage, controls, tail and landing gear. Two models were offered, using the same wings, tails, controls and landing gear: a single-seat. open-cockpit, parasol-wing model, and an enclosed, two-seat, high-wing version. some say Popular Mechanics as of 2015. In 1974, aviation historians John Underwood and Peter Bowers reported 200 Baby Aces were flying, with only one prewar example still active. They noted that only a very few of the Junior Aces had been built before the 1930s CAA crackdown on amateur-built aircraft, with just two of the 1930s two-seaters still flying. ==Variants==

;Baby Ace :Single-seat ;Super Ace :Single-seat powered by a Ford Model A automotive engine. Plans updated by EAA founder Paul Poberezny. ;Jr. Ace :Two-seat side by side variant. ;Pober Jr Ace :Updated plans of the Jr. Ace model ==Specifications (Baby Ace D)==