“I was a bit apprehensive,” Barry says. “I didn’t think you could build something of that caliber in that amount of time. It’s pretty satisfying, putting the machine together in two weeks, and it flew well.”

Barry didn’t build the airplane alone. It came together during the ultimate DIY aviation vacation: Glasair’s “Two Weeks to Taxi” program, which provides a would-be Howard Hughes with everything needed to build an airplane. It’s a handy way to help the home builder avoid the most common pitfall of DIY aviation — never finishing the project.

Barry arrived at Glasair’s factory — about 20 minutes from Boeing’s huge factory outside Seattle — on Nov. 1. He completed his first flight Tuesday

"It's better than a factory plane: You know everything that's inside of it," he says. "With a factory plane, all you can trust is that somebody else did it right. I know it's right. I was there. I built it."

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