VH-ULB Stits
SA-6B Flut-R-Bug
(c/n 599-2)
VH-ULB was constructed from the second of two kits imported by
Hamiilton Industries. It differed
from the
earlier VH-ULA in having a 95 hp Porsche engine. It was intended
that this machine become
the
prototype for an Australian-manufactured model to be known as the
Hamilton Jackeroo. In the
event
production plans did not materialize and -ULA and -ULB were, I believe,
the only two Flut-R-
Bugs
completed. The above shot, from the Phil Vabre collection,
shows the diminutive machine at an
air show
at Point Cook in the 1970s (complete with Porsche badge on the
fuselage) whilst Bob Neate's
photo below was taken at Moorabbin soon after it had been built in
1962.