home-built airplanes

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Southwest Airlines pilot Bob Mills stands next to the first RV-1 aircraft built, after flying it into the Ogden-Hinckley Airport in Ogden on Thursday.

Original homebuilt RV-1 plane lands in Ogden

OGDEN — It’s that look seen on a child’s face on Christmas morning.

That was the look on the faces of two dozen men and a few women Thursday when a historic experimental airplane flew into Ogden-Hinckley Airport.

The tiny plane was the bright-yellow RV-1, the original homebuilt aircraft that started an industry of similar aircraft in the past few decades.

Willard stands at Ogden-Hinckley Airport with two of the planes he built, a white and blue RV-8 and the olive drab single-seater RV-3.
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A man and his magnificent flying machines

It may look like a long, silver canoe, but the shiny metal contraption taking shape in Ed Willard's workshop won't be seaworthy anytime soon.

These are the "skins" of an airplane fuselage, joined together rivet by rivet in painstaking work that sometimes leaves Willard's arm and hand numb. Next up will come the addition of the tail, already assembled and hanging on the wall, and the wings, now leaning up against some shelving.

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