Peter M. Bowers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peter M. Bowers

journalist specializing in aviation

Date of Birth: 15-May-1918

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 27-Apr-2003

Profession: writer, engineer, journalist, aerospace engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Peter M. Bowers

  • Peter M.
  • Bowers (15 May 1918 – 27 April 2003) was a journalist specializing in the field of aviation. Bowers is famed in the general aviation community for his work with General Aviation News.
  • Writing 26 books and over 800 articles detailing historic aircraft for a column called "Of Wings and Things", Bowers was a fixture of the newspaper for decades.
  • Also an engineer at Boeing, he was an avid aviation photographer and also designed homebuilt aircraft such as the Fly Baby and Namu II.
  • Bowers also completed and flew a Detroit G1 Gull primary glider.Bowers lived in Seattle for most of his life.
  • He spent five years in the U.S.
  • Army Air Force as a maintenance and intelligence officer.
  • He served as a contributing editor for Sentry Publications' twin magazine titles Wings and Airpower, drawing on a lifetime of aviation photographs of his own, and of a vast archive collected through his employment at Boeing.
  • Bowers died from cancer in 2003. Under its Fly Baby entry Jane's All The World's Aircraft, 1964–1965, says of Bowers: Mr.
  • Peter Bowers, an aeronautical engineer with Boeing in Seattle, is a principal source of detailed information on vintage aircraft in the United States, and has provided much of the data for a number of replicas of 1914-18 War aircraft now under construction or flying.
  • He is currently engaged on a redesign of the Fokker D.VIII monoplane of 1918 in association with Herr Rheinhold Platz, the original designer, with a view to starting a replica building program. A full-scale Fokker Triplane replica of this period has been under construction by Mr.
  • Bowers for nearly five years.
  • At least six others are known to be under construction from plans that he has provided. Another aircraft built by Mr.
  • Bowers is a full-scale replica of the Wright Model EX of 1911, the first aeroplane to cross the American continent.
  • This machine was tested as a towed sailplane in the Autumn of 1961 and is to be powered by a converted "B" Ford automobile engine from a 1938 Funk monoplane. In addition to this work on replicas, Mr.
  • Bowers has designed and built a single-seat light aircraft known as the Fly Baby...

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