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As an aside, look at the way the Germans managed to build airplanes at
the end of the war-or the way huge mine trucks are built today. Most are built in buildings that the assembled truck could barely fit in and certainly never be driven out of without dismantling the building. I'd say you could build a light aircraft designed for manufacturability in a building roughly the size of a McDonald's and truck them to the airport with a bread van. Any mass produced successful sport aircraft today ought to have folding wings, whether it's trailered or if it goes in a community hanger. There is a folding wing mod for the venerable Ercoupe (it's STC'd or their equivalent in Canada, I'm not sure here) and five or six of them will fit in the hangar footprint of a Skylane. In fact, there's a hell of a case for combining such an operation with either an A&P school or a sheltered workshop-don't laugh, Rosie the Riveter was only one of the famous nontraditional aircraft workers in The Big One. Doug the Dwarf, Roger the Retard, Crazy Chuck, and Ollie the Old F*** were there too! |
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