Avro Baby

The Avro 534 Baby (originally named the "Popular") was a British single-seat light sporting biplane built shortly after the First World War.

The Avro Baby was a single-bay biplane of conventional configuration with a wire-braced wooden structure covered in canvas.

The fourth (counting the short-lived prototype) Baby was designated Type 534B, distinguished by its plywood-covered fuselage and reduced-span lower wing.

This "Venetian blind" wing design was proposed and previously explored by Horatio Phillips in the last decade of the 19th century.

[7] The Babies were raced in the early 1920s by a variety of pilots but are best remembered for the flights of G-EACQ in the hands of Bert Hinkler.

On 24 July, he won second place in the handicap category of the Aerial Derby at Hendon, and on 11 April 1921 set a new distance record in Australia when he flew the Baby non-stop from Sydney to his home town of Bundaberg 800 mi (1,288 km) away, making the flight in 8 hours 40 minutes.

In June 1922, another Baby made the first flight between London and Moscow when the Russian Gwaiter collected his machine from Hamble and flew it home.

Avro 554 Antarctic Baby photo from L'Aerophile February,1922
Avro Baby 3-view drawing from Les Ailes 1 September 1921