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The Shober Willie II is an American two-seat sporting or
aerobatic
Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights. The term is a portmanteau of "aeroplane" and "acrobatics". Aerobatics are performed in aeroplanes and gl ...
aircraft designed and built by
Shober Aircraft Enterprises.
The aircraft was designed to be sold as plans for
amateur construction.
Design
The Willie II is a braced single-bay
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
with a
fabric covered welded steel fuselage.
The two-spar wooden wings are fabric covered with wide-span
aileron
An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. Ailerons are used in pairs to control the aircraft in roll (or movement aroun ...
s on the lower wing and a fabric covered wired-braced welded steel tail unit.
The prototype is powered by a
Lycoming O-360-A3A four-cylinder piston engine.
It has two open cockpits in tandem and a fixed
conventional landing gear
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with a tailwheel.
Specifications (Prototype)
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1970s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
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Willie II
Aerobatic aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1971