but Dutch teenager Jesse van Kuijk has become one of the rare few to make it happen with his pedal-powered plane made out of balsa wood, polyurethane, and rip-resistant foil. The most impressive part?

Stoloff discovered all 12 of his balsa-wood planes missing from the third-floor workshop of his Lime Bay condominium. Ten other residents have workbenches in the shop, but Stoloff said his was the ...

He started building the plane four years ago. Hill said the team lost satellite contact with the balsa wood plane, which has a two-metre wingspan, about the length of an ironing board.