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Design and development

The Ray's Rebel is a braced low-wing

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with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in

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. The wing is an all-wood construction covered with Ceconite, it has endplates on the

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s and frise-type

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s but has no flaps or

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s. Ray's Rebel is powered by a Lycoming O-290-G air-cooled piston engine driving a two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller. The landing gear is a fixed tailwheel type with a

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fairing over the wheel. The enclosed cockpit has two

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seats under a rearward-sliding

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. 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.

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* {{refend 1970s United States civil utility aircraft Homebuilt aircraft Low-wing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft RB-1 Aircraft first flown in 1970