"Bob Gardner" wrote

As long as I have been seeing Popular Mechanics and/or Popular Science
on newsstands...and that is a long time...there have been occasional
articles promising an airplane in every garage, or "you can build this
airplane" or whatever. If they made any impression on the general
public I haven't noticed it.

I think that two articles which I cut out and still have, started more
people on the homebuilt track than any other until recent times. These
were the BD-4 and Jennie's Tennie/ Tennie Two. And one cannot forget
the BD-4 articles that sold one hell-of-a-lot of never finished kits.

Bob Moore