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Re: Chinese Wright Brothers
Amazing to me, because China does not really have a homebuilt aircraft industry, like the U.S. Even in Japan, the homebuilders are tolerated, but they can only fly in a tiny area along a river in Tokyo. It's like a 1 square mile area, but that is ALL they have. But they STILL build and fly. This guy must have bought plans from the U.S. or Europe and then scrounged parts to build an actual airplane. I'm impressed, but sorry it ended sadly. Hope he gets back in the air soon, and doesn't get in trouble with the Chinese authorities for building his own airplane. In the U.S. this would be some drunken hill-billy. But in China, where there is essentially NO PRIVATE AVIATION, this guy did a HUGE amount of work just to fly off of that road. I would be VERY curious to know who he is, and how things wound up for him. In the U.S. this guy would be a "Wrong" brother, but in my eyes, in China, he is something special. |