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Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 13:50:32 No.2040375 View View Reply Original Report

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what's stopping you from building and flying your own flying machine?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 13:59:40 No.2040376 Report

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I can barely replace the cables on my bike without fucking something up and taking it to the shop, I'd rather not darwin award myself with a DIY airplane like they do in oshkosh every year

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 17:09:01 No.2040388 Report

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>>2040375
The EAAA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 17:10:14 No.2040389 Report

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>>2040375
The EASA

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 18:44:24 No.2040398 Report

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>>2040375
Nobody is stopping me but i simply dont care about flying or planes in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 19:29:37 No.2040404 Report

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>>2040375
Time and space. My dream is to build a Long EZ with fully retractable gear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 May 2025 06:44:08 No.2040432 Report

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>>2040375
Cost and space. Anything I'd be interested in would cost at least $50k and probably closer to $100k by the time I'd be done.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 May 2025 17:07:50 No.2040463 Report

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>>2040375
As fun as flying is, hobbyist/homebuilt aviation often seems like a death cult. We can't go two weeks without someone falling out of the sky, often taking others with them. Investing so much time, money, and effort into some hobby just to end up in a burning pile of wreckage. Just a few days ago a recreational pilot crashed in a thunderstorm after writing his own obituary. Was it really worth it? Better to just ride a bike at that point.
https://youtu.be/SqEIDvWAvJU

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 May 2025 18:14:24 No.2040471 Report

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>>2040463
As evidenced by that story, it's pretty much always bad decision making and taking stupid unnecessary risks that does it. There are over three quarters of a million licensed pilots in the US, most of them amateurs, and only a small fraction of them ever have a serious incident while flying, much less get killed doing it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 May 2025 19:03:29 No.2040474 Report

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>>2040375
plural of aircraft is aircraft, no s

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 May 2025 23:35:44 No.2040818 Report

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>>2040375
I own a home. Combined with work it easily takes up all of my /diy/ energy.

Christmas break 2023 I set out to replace a leaking shower pan, expecting it to take a few weeks. 14 months later I have an entirely new tiled shower.

There's a reason that homebuilts are sort of a retirement hobby.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Jun 2025 18:19:38 No.2043399 Report

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>>2040375
Someday, somehow, I will construct my own Zeppelin airship.
Not a blimp. RIGID.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 04:01:03 No.2043456 Report

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>>2040375
i'm simply too retarded to do that

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 05:33:58 No.2043471 Report

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I've always wanted to build a Gyrocopter, the relatively short takeoff and landing and the ability to perform unpowered landings similar to a traditional aircraft always made them stand out to me as far as DIY aircraft go but I've also heard they can be more dangerous that traditional airplanes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Jun 2025 07:02:19 No.2043481 Report

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>>2040375
>>2040463
This, death happens way too often.

https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/plane-crash-kills-two-in-petaluma/
https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/couple-killed-in-petaluma-plane-crash-idd/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jun 2025 16:29:40 No.2043872 Report

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>>2040375
Not wanting to die a horrible death

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 12 Jun 2025 19:24:03 No.2043967 Report

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>>2040463
This kinds of posts are so stupid. You realize you are going to die too right? There is nothing you can do to stop it and you will die one day.
People who built their own aircraft are acquainted with the risks of flying and choose to do it anyway because they love it. I don't see how that is any worse than dying in a nursing home of late stage alzheimer's with your diaper full of shit or whatever your plan is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Jun 2025 10:00:58 No.2045483 Report

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how do you afford something like this

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 21 Jun 2025 13:15:14 No.2045511 Report

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>>2040375
the man
he be keepin me down

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