The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers

It is so unfortunate that flying has such a credentialist mafia holding it back from more widespread use. Imagine if motorcycles had even half the regulations to ride as single seater aircraft do. Such a ridiculous state of affairs.

Reminded me of this book: https://archive.org/details/borednothingtodo0000spie

I'm trying to imagine what a bunch of teenagers could do today to get a similar sense of accomplishment. Note that they weren't even doing particularly well at grade school.

Here is one in flight, very recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYdpoOakAY

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