Pilot constructs own plane from scratch
Posted on April 5, 2010 |
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TYLER MCGUIRE OF New Haven has been working for more than two years on a kit airplane. McGuire, who studied aerospace engineering at a college in Florida, began the project to gain hands-on experience with aerospace mechanics.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
NEW HAVEN — Tyler McGuire set about an adventure to build his own airplane in exactly the manner one might expect a 20-year-old college student to do: He jumped in headfirst.
The New Haven resident was holed up at college in Florida with his friend Abe Nehemias when the two aerospace engineering students considered the notion to build a functional airplane from a partially manufactured kit.
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