Breezing Through Oshkosh
A maker’s look at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture show.
Photography by William Gurstelle (this page and next, top)
Of all the projects that makers can conceive, I’d wager that none is so challenging to both mind and body or has such a rich and historic legacy as the home-built flying machine.
Long before the Wright Brothers, makers were trying to emulate bird flight in balloons and gliders. Early success stories were few and far between. But since the Wrights, building airplanes has been the maker’s mark, the cynosure of amateur craftsmanship and mechanical design. No other amateur ...
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