Chupp Little Bitty
The year 1916 was important for Carl B. Chupp: He went to work for the Thomas Morse Aeroplane Factory of Ithaca NY after attending Georgia Tech (and he was married). At work, he entered into a wager with a fellow engineer to see who could build and fly the smallest combustion engine and model airplane. Chupp started the project in 1917. He first designed and built a one-inch bore, one-inch stroke, four-stroke, horizontally opposed gas engine. It was a true work of inventive genius.
