Comments on: A home-made plane

By: Cotour

Cotour — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:49:19 +0000

THE PHEONIX RISES, at least a little one does:

You gotta love it.

By: V-Man

V-Man — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:16:54 +0000

Draco may be down but might not be out. Mike is currently working on Scrappy, a highly-customized Carbon Cub with a race plane engine(!), but in one of his recent videos, he indicated that he will rebuild Draco afterward, with even more extreme modifications. Can’t wait!

By: Mike Borgelt

Mike Borgelt — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:13:08 +0000

Also look up EAA.org, the organisation that started for homebuilt airplanes.
You can build not only WW1 “replicas” But actual useful traveling airplanes like the Van’s Aircraft series and the Bede BD-4 amongst many others. You’ll find aircraft in wood, aluminum or composites including pressurized turboprops capable of 300+ knots in the flight levels.
My wife and I have owned a BD-4 for 20+ years and flown it all over Australia.

When you’ve looked at Draco and how it is built realize that Mike Patey is one half of a set of twins and his brother has just as much energy and enthusiasm for airplanes as he does.

By: Alex Andrite

Alex Andrite — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:23:55 +0000

The STOL bush pilot competition videos out of Alaska are a real treat. Look them up.
My son in Fairbanks, a detail construction carpenter, worked for a family who had their back country home and outbuildings built by him and the team.
During winter months, they would truck then “snow mobile” huge multiple sleds of building supplies off and onto the building site, across hard frozen tundra, marsh, and lakes. Then during spring and summer they would get flown in to the site, lake landing or short gravel sand bar landings, to complete the construction.
He would always take his job site dog along, a beautiful husky mix. But had to put him in a large burlap bag while flying in. Husky loved the sled rides, but got pretty tight when he saw the airplane.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:28:27 +0000

Good Grief.

Apparently we are unaware that there is an entire INDUSTRY dedicated to manufacturing KITS to build REAL AIRPLANES. Here is the magazine for that industry,
https://www.kitplanes.com/
My faves, partly because they can be made CHEAPLY are these.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=airdrome+aeroplanes+