Parker Teenie Two

The Parker Teenie Two is a single-seat, single-engine sport aircraft first built in the United States in 1969 and marketed for homebuilding.

[2][3] The cockpit was designed to be left open, but plans for a canopy to enclose it were made available, the use of which would increase the top speed of the aircraft.

Improvements on the Jeanie's Teenie included adoption of a fixed horizontal stabilizer, over the all flying tail of the former machine.

The aft fuselage was smoothed to follow a straight line from the cockpit to the tail, an aesthetic change that replaced the older plane's bent back appearance.

Teenie Two was conceived as an airplane that could be built using only hand tools, things that would be possessed by the average person in the early 1970s.

Power is derived from the ubiquitous air-cooled Volkswagen automobile engine with modifications laid out by the designer in the plans.

The main spar utilizes a special channel that allows the outer wings to flex and minimizes the amount of material required for bracing.

The landing gear is tubular steel, with automotive valve springs and rubber hose inside, for shock absorption.

The landing gear is a fixed tricycle configuration with nose wheel steering through rudder bar deflection.

This makes ingress/egress of the tight cockpit simpler and prevents leg movements from imparting motion to the stick inflight.

[5] The flight characteristics of the design were intended to be quick but not oversensitive, for mild aerobatics and handling in rough air.