An aerial photographer has spent over three years building his very own aerobatic airplane—entirely from scratch.
Roy Ben Anat, 34, has always wanted his own aerobatic aircraft but with prices as high as $500,000, he found the easiest way to obtain his own flying machine was to build it himself.
He began constructing his plane in a workshop in 2019 and after three-and-a-half years of hard work, he took off on his first successful test flight on August 11, 2022.
In total, he spent some $112,000, shaving hundreds of thousands off the cost.
“The first test flight was extremely busy,” said Anat, who hails from Alfei Menashe, Israel. “First, [I had] to make the airplane fly straight….