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 | national origin=United States
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 | designer=Ray Bishop
 | first flight=28 March 1970
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The '''RB-1 Ray's Rebel''' is an American two-seat light sporting aircraft designed and built by Ray Bishop of Norton, Ohio.<ref name="Janes" />

==Design and development==
The Ray's Rebel is a braced low-wing [[Engineering:Monoplane|monoplane]] with a welded steel-tube fuselage covered in fabric.<ref name="Janes" /> The wing is an all-wood construction covered with Ceconite, it has endplates on the [[Engineering:Wing tip|wing tip]]s and frise-type [[Engineering:Aileron|aileron]]s but has no flaps or [[Engineering:Trim tab|trim tab]]s.<ref name="Janes" /> Ray's Rebel is powered by a {{convert|125|hp|kW|0|abbr=on}} Lycoming O-290-G air-cooled piston engine driving a two-bladed fixed pitch tractor propeller.<ref name="Janes" /> The landing gear is a [[Engineering:Conventional landing gear|fixed tailwheel type]] with a glassfibre fairing over the wheel.<ref name="Janes" /> The enclosed cockpit has two side-by-side configuration seats under a rearward-sliding canopy.<ref name="Janes" /> Bishop started designing the aircraft in October 1954 and started construction in February 1955, fifteen years later it was completed and now registered N971RB. Roy's Rebel first flew on 28 March 1970.<ref name="Janes" />

==Specifications==
{{Aircraft specs
|ref=<small>Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74</small><ref name="Janes" />
|prime units? = imp
|crew=2
|length m=6.71
|length ft=22
|length in=0
|span m=7.14
|span ft=23
|span in=5
|height m=1.68
|height ft=5
|height in=6
|wing area sqm=10.9
|wing area sqft=117.5
|empty weight kg=499
|empty weight lb=1100
|gross weight kg=703
|gross weight lb=1550
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Lycoming O-290-G four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled piston engine
|eng1 kw=<!-- prop engines -->93
|eng1 hp=<!-- prop engines -->125
|max speed kmh=289
|max speed mph=180
|cruise speed kmh=241
|cruise speed mph=150
|stall speed kmh=90.5
|stall speed mph=56
|range km=442
|range miles=275
|ceiling m=4570
|ceiling ft=15000
|climb rate ftmin=1800
}}
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==References==

===Notes===
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<ref name="Janes">Taylor 1973, p. 271</ref>
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===Bibliography===
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*{{cite book |editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John W.R. |title= Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1973-74|year= 1973|publisher= Jane's Yearbooks |location=London, United Kingdom|isbn=0-354-00117-5}}
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[[Category:Homebuilt aircraft]]
[[Category:Low-wing aircraft]]
[[Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft]]

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