The Pretty Prairie Special and it’s next flight

Dec 13-14 will be the a heavy lift for the cables but nothing like the burden Retired Air Force Colonel Marion D. Unruh of Pretty Prairie, Kansas must have felt before his first flight with PPS II-Model 1 on June 27, 1966.

(T)he single seater bipe was 29 years (repeat, 29 years) in the construction stage. It was started in 1937 at France Field in the Panama Canal Zone with Marion using basic Knight Twister plans. At the time, he decided upon a stiff leg landing gear and a conventional wing structure with both internal and external bracing…see this webpage for more..(http://www.steenaero.com/articles_detail.cfm?ArticleID=8)

With the help of On the Fly Productions and the Kansas Aviation Museum I am beyond excited to announce the raising of this piece of history. Feel free the stop on by and witness history.