Homebuilt Biplane N9111 at a 1960s Experimental Aircraft Fly-In

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Homebuilt Biplane N9111 at a 1960s Experimental Aircraft Fly-In — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1960–1969

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The tail marking says it plainly: EXPERIMENTAL. In the 1960s that word did not scare anyone off, it was practically a badge of honour, the kind of label a man stencilled onto an aeroplane he had built himself in a garage using a set of plans, a lot of confidence, and whatever aluminium tubing the hardware store had on hand.

N9111 sits gleaming in red and cream on the grass, freshly rigged and clearly somebody's proudest possession, the sort of aircraft that got polished the night before a fly-in the way other men waxed a new Buick. Around it, a whole field of similarly homemade machines waits its turn to be admired, each owner having decided independently that the safest place for an amateur-built aeroplane was directly next to a hundred other amateur-built aeroplanes.

A woman in the background studies one of the other entries with her arms crossed, the universal posture of someone being told, at length, about a control-surface modification she did not ask about. The man loading gear into the cockpit at left has the unhurried air of someone who built his plane to fly it, not just to park it and talk, which by 1960s fly-in standards made him the rarer bird of the two.

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