[1] Later the Starr Bumble Bee II would claim that title.

[1] It was an all-metal cantilever mid-wing monoplane powered by a Kiekhaefer O-45-35 flat-twin piston engine.

[1] The unusual feature was that the aircraft lacked any internal room for a pilot who had to fly it lying prone atop the fuselage.

The prototype was destroyed when the original San Diego Air and Space Museum burned down in 1978.

[2] After the fire, a replica was built and is now on display at the new San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park.