How big is the Parroquet?  thanks Les for sharing these pics.

Billys' Perrequat was small. It was powered with an HP40 that had been lightened by cutting away the fins, mounts and webs of the crankcase.
A bit larger than Matt Colans Aries but nowhere the size of the Super Aries. It was a good flyer but just didn't "present" well like his USA1.
Billy started getting better results after he abandoned the Perrequat/Juno era and started the Geo series.
All of Billys planes flew well, some just looked like they were "doing the business" more than others.

                                                                                                                          Les McDonald

Billy's Perroquet was my favorite ever of his designs. 

I've heard others repeat the comments about its size and presentation but I sure didn't feel that way.  I always felt his USA-1 was sort of swoopy in corners as opposed to the brisk cut and shoot of his smaller airplanes.  The Perroquet with the .40 in it was a very positive airplane in the air with pretty much zero hesitation anywhere.  I think it was just enough larger than the Ares to absorb the power of the HP effectively. 

I know I'm in the minority but I always felt his Fox .35 designs repowered with the Aero Tiger looked overpowered and sort of "chargy" in the corners; lacking Billy's trademark smoothness.  The Perroquet was, IMHO, his best balanced ship.  The only airplane/pilot combo of the era I felt matched it was Gene Schaffer and the Hallmark with the ST .46 and the three bladed silver Tornado 10 X 6 on the front end.  Both these airplane/engine combos were airborne "sewing machines".   They convinced me way back in the '70s that "bigger" stunt ships weren't the answer to "better" patterns.

Ted

This is not the thread that I would have expected this discussion.

Randy said: "I agree Ted , bigger is not always better, and picking a plane that fits the hemisphere your playing in, and matching plane and power is best!"
  I couldn't agree more with Randy and Ted. When Lew had the Shark 45 at the '61 Nats, people commented that it was too big for the circle. Then airplanes got bigger.  The Fox powered ships had reached the larger end of the envelope and while the Shark 45 was bigger, the common thread was that they were both behind the power curve. Then we learned the advantage of power.

Now the .35 ship looks too small when flown back to back with the larger airplanes. This is perception, but it is true.

I have always felt that something between the Behemoths and the Classic size is probably what we need. Thankfully many of our best flyers are now saying the same thing.

Some recent flights on my .46 powered Classic "Jerseyan" have resulted in great comments and the realization that it is just comfortable to fly and has great penetration. . A slightly larger "tweener" airplane should be ideal.

The size and horsepower race may have created some extremes, but this could be the beginning of an even better era.

As Randy said: "picking a plane that fits the hemisphere your playing in, and matching plane and power is best!"