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Meet Savor – Chris Christiansen third homebuilt aeroplane
Self-taught 31-year-old amateur builder Chris Christiansen designed and flew his third homebuilt aeroplane, the high-wing Savor, in just 15 months. That’s especially impressive considering that...
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Mark Stull’s Lucky Stars ultralight aircraft
Mark Stull built Lucky Stars with a 1,4-metre ring tail. It took some clever engineering – and some hair-raising test flights – to make it work. Stull added a hydraulic damper to ensure that the tail...
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Of delicious curves and industrial chic (November 2011 issue)
This month’s cover story, “Build your own plane”, celebrates some of the most interesting ideas and innovations in DIY flight: you’ll meet the radical and disconcertingly over-powered RP-4, Cory...
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DIY flight
It’s good to be an amateur aircraft designer in the United States. Engineering software is sold on the shelves, American airspace is the most permissive in the world, and hordes of fellow tinkerers...
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