This is the start of Stu

This is the start of Stu's airplane history. Like his guitar building, you will see many parts that he has actually made. Stu has built 23 airframes. The Peitsch family in Minot has one. Stu still retains four of them and completing them to be flying airplanes. The literature below was used while he did airshows. The top picture was taken in the state of Maine. The second picture was picking up a dish towel on the poles with the vertical fin of the airplane, also in Maine. The third picture is a simulator. As you look close, you will see a seat in there. There was an electric button that revolved the seat to turn him upside down as the fear of falling is in each and every one of us and had to be dealt with and to become accustomed to hanging on the seatbelt. As the years went by, when Stu rolled the airplane over, there was never no feeling of falling. Stu flew the airplane twice a day at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The worst part of the day was to learn the wind and the heat. The air was never the same with the winter and so forth. Stu studied the airplane for nine years. There is another interesting story behind this. This was done in a rural farming community. The surrounding population did not understand what Stu was trying to learn and the determination within him. The following is a piece of literature that he used in his airshow business.

P.S.: Be sure to read about the very beginning of Stu's inverted flight. It's in an airplane which he built "Great Lakes Bi-plane" originally built in the 30's. This is a replica that Stu built. He is rebuilding it today.

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