The Skyote Aeromarine Skyote (sometimes written "Skyotë", and pronounced either "Sky-oh-tee" or "Sky-yoat") is a single-engine, single-seat sport biplane designed in the 1970s in the United States and marketed as plans and kits for homebuilding. The 'Skyote' is a conventional open-cockpit biplane design, with fixed, tailwheel undercarriage. The wings are slightly swept for center-of-gravity and lateral stability reasons and to improve performance in snap rolls. The equal-span, staggered wings are braced together with conventional struts and wires that form a single bay. Neither the upper nor lower wings have any dihedral, and ailerons are fitted to all four wings. The fuselage is built from welded steel tubing with wooden stringers and formers to give it shape, the wing structure is aluminum, and the entire aircraft is covered in fabric. The Skyote was designed by O. E. "Pete" Bartoe, a biplane enthusiast who owned and flew a de Havilland Tiger Moth but had become attracted to more aerobatic types that he had flown at airshows, including the Rose Parakeet and Bücker Jungmeister. In the early 1970s, Bartoe operated the Ball-Bartoe Aircraft Corporation in Boulder, Colorado. When he remarked to the two mechanics who worked with him that he would like to see an aircraft that combined the best characteristics of the Parakeet and the Jungmann, they replied, "You design it and we'll build it on weekends." For more history of the development of the Skyote, click here.
