Well, building your own plane exists for years, there is big communities and forums etc nowadays, but even in the 50s you were able to do it, buy kits, etc.
This gets more absurd every new story lol
right? the more that comes out about oceangate, the more baffled i am that this is a real company that actually generated revenue; i mean the context & details surrounding this story have become ironic enough to be almost cartoonish at this point. even the name of the company in itself seems like some sort of foreshadowing (well, if we’re going by past uses of the -gate suffix)
This is not some absurd thing. I fly an expirimental plane that I bought off of sombody who “built it themselves”. There’s an airshow every year in Wisconsin where about 10,000 aircraft fly in and a good chunk of those are expirimental. Aircraft kits are very very easy to build these days.
Stockton Rush is a killer and should be charged posthumously with four counts of negligent homicide. He’s just as culpable, if not more, that someone who gets behind the wheel drink and kills their passengers.
This is the kind of headline a person with no aviation background would write. There are thousands and thousands of experimental airplanes in operation, and a couple thousand more added every year. If you live by small-ish airport, chances are you have an experimental airplane flying over you on a regular basis.
