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Down to Earth

Little Bird and the magic it makes.

By Amy Laboda



Little Bird sits tucked into a small clearing off of the grass runway at the hunting camp, dwarfed by pines on all sides.

Seventeen years ago, when the big crate arrived in our two-car driveway, in front of our two-car garage, I was overwhelmed by the idea that my husband and I, young marrieds and young parents, were actually going to take on the task of building an airplane. I was right to be overwhelmed.

Even though the airplane we had picked, a Kitfox 4 with “speedster-style” clipped wings and a two-stroke Rotax 582 engine, was a pretty simple build from one of the most complete kits on the market (at the time), it was a lot for us. But it was worth the effort. …


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