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Coors blimey, it's a plane! It's definitely not a bird, but pilot Bob Bishop's Silver Bullet isn't much bigger
Coors blimey, it's a plane! It's definitely not a bird, but pilot Bob Bishop's Silver Bullet isn't much bigger

Coors blimey, it's a plane! It's definitely not a bird, but pilot Bob Bishop's Silver Bullet isn't much bigger

Date6/5/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Coors blimey, it's a plane! It's definitely not a bird, but pilot Bob Bishop's Silver Bullet isn't much bigger. The world's smallest jet is only 12 feet long with a 17-foot wingspan, weighs 432 pounds, can cruise for an hour and has a top speed of 300 m.p.h. Designed and built in 1976 by Bishop, of Edmond, Okla., it has been touring for the past three years for a brewery. The plane, seen at Buttonville Airport yesterday, will perform aerobatics in an air show at London, Ont., tomorrow and Sunday.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002691F