In 1986 Jesse Anglin of Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA, designed the single-seat Spacewalker that reproduced the classic configuration (low-wing, open-cockpit tail dragger) of the Ryan monoplanes of the late 1930s but constructed of modern materials and powered by modern engines. The aircraft had fabric covered wooden wings and a welded chrome-molybdenum steel tube fuselage and wire braced tail unit, also fabric covered. Powered by a 65 hp Continential flat-four engine the aircraft first flew in 1986, registered N107JA (c/n 107) . In 1990 Anglin designed the tandem two-seat Spacewalker II, using similar methods of construction. The prototype was manufactured by Maxey Hester of Montezuma, Iowa. Powered by a 65 hp Teledyne Continental engine, the prototype was first flown in 1990, registered N516HM. More recently a real 'retro' version was developed by Martin Hone of Australia, when he flew his Spacewalker II-RR for the first time in 2009, fitted with a Rotec 3600 radial engine.
