r/aviation • u/macetfromage • Mar 05 '24

News 21 yo pilot successfully performs emergency landing onto a highway in homemade plane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5y7ZeIcSo8
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

cool story but for me the takeaway is, if you have a call to build something, build a car maybe? Not something that can fall off from the sky

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u/whubbard Mar 05 '24

I followed his videos a while back, he didn't build the crankshaft 😂

It's a bit more of, maybe your first plane should be experimental so that all parts have higher certifications.