Another Samuel P. Langley Award winner

Too bad this doesn't apply to country leadership (ours and other's as well).
Scdew up and perish by your own invention. Igor Sikorsky was right.
 
The last few paragraphs are interesting, obviously the reporter and editors have no idea (or don't care) that meant thousands of people have successfully built their own airplanes.

He is not the first person to try to take to the skies in an aircraft of their own making.

A man in the UK spent his spare time during the coronavirus pandemic building a plane in his garden for his family.

An Ethiopian man spent 10 years researching, using aviation manuals and YouTube tutorials, and almost two years building a DIY plane in order to fly to his own wedding in 2015.
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Dana said:
The last few paragraphs are interesting, obviously the reporter and editors have no idea (or don't care) that meant thousands of people have successfully built their own airplanes.
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I think there’s a major difference between piecing together a kit compared to designing/building your own scratch built helicopter/airplane.

I think it’s pretty cool that he was still tinkering at 88. Wish a lot more of us had that spirit.
 
At least Langley didn’t have 121 years of powered flight preceding his designs, and the entirety of human knowledge available at his fingertips.
 
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