Plane enthusiasts plan LSA-compliant composite aircraft

摘要

In the 1990s, Steve Schultz, GEO of Ion Aircraft (St. Paul, Minn.), was one of about 145 people who placed orders and laid down deposits for a small plane that never made it off the drawing board. Schultz and fourteen others, mostly disappointed customers like himself, decided that rather than giving up on their dream, they would design and build their own plane. The following year Ion Aircraft was born and, today, has four working employees - Schultz, a machinist, an engine specialist and a welder.