He spent five years tinkering, toying and toiling away on his mostly wooden homebuilt airplane, joining the ... Some pilots build “from scratch” with plans in hand, while others take the ...

One of them is a homebuilt airplane. To construct your own plane ... of an amphibious seaplane with a hull crafted from laminated wood. He had spent 14 years on the project, and it looked like ...

Steen performed aerobatics at numerous airshows during the 1970s and sold hundreds of plans for the homebuilt airplane ... tube fuselage and wooden wings. The original aircraft used a Lycoming ...

Two tragic plane crashes in two weeks have exposed a booming interest in home-built ... aircraft as 'experimental.' Those can include planes built from kits with some prefabricated parts or from ...