Savvy aircraft builders will never commit to a first-flight date, despite constant pestering from friends and relatives. That’s the top of the bell curve, but of course there are builders at either end of it too.
A builder will have to spend, realistically, 15 to 20 hours a week, every week, to see even a relatively simple airplane to completion in a reasonable amount of time.įor dedicated builders, most airplane projects take two to four years. The only sane way to contemplate a task of this magnitude is to work on one piece at a time, breaking the huge project into many smaller, more manageable ones savor small milestones and let the “big picture” take care of itself. Without consistent progress, the sight of the receding goal posts proves too discouraging, and the project dies. Any time not spent working in the shop just extends the project - it is one reason some airplane projects take decades.
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