Homebuilders at Oshkosh: Airplanes Weird but Wonderful


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Published on  November 2024

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Plane Ownership

My personal and most delicious fetish is the backstories in the Homebuilt Zone. The cautious engineers at Cessna would run away from of these designs, barely ahead of the corporate attorneys. But each homebuilt plane flew itself to Wittman Regional so they gotta be doing something right. In the Homebuilt Zone you will find the weirdest inventions that have “ever slipped the surly bonds.” They’re so weird they’re the ones who made the bonds surly.

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