The cheapest fastest and easiest to build homebuilt aircraft with just an 18 HP engine

Here comes the brainchild, the absolute masterpiece of the man who revolutionized home-built aviation forever, the mythical Quickie Q1 by Bert Rutan. If you want an airplane that literally looks like a Star Wars spaceship but that you can build in your garage without having to sell a kidney, this machine will leave you breathless. It is a single seater with a tandem wing configuration where the front wing magically doubles as the landing gear. It is a stroke of true engineering genius that not only steals every single look but was created with the idea of squeezing out every last drop of aerodynamic efficiency while spending the bare minimum. Its construction is the perfect introduction to the world of composite materials but in the most drastically simple and economical way possible. For this plane, Rutan popularized the moldless method. This means you can completely forget about spending a fortune on expensive tools or molds. Basically, you are going to cut foam blocks, shape them into the desired aerodynamic form, and then simply cover them with fiberglass and epoxy resin. It is literally like making a giant surfboard. The assembly is so fast and intuitive that the original prototype was built in just about 400 hours of work. You don't need to know about welding or rivets, just cutting foam and applying resin. And when you see its numbers, you realize this plane breaks the rules of what is possible for so little money. It is an extreme featherweight with an absurd empty weight of about 243 pounds, 110 kilograms, and its gross weight reaches just 480 pounds, 118 kilograms. Because it is aerodynamically perfect, an engine with just 18 horsepower is enough. Yes, almost the power of a lawnmower or a super cheap industrial engine to push it to a brutal cruise speed of 121 miles per hour, 195 kilometers per hour, and a top speed of 126 miles per hour, 203 kilometers per hour. When it's time to fly slow, it has a stall speed of 47 miles per hour, 76 kilometers per hour. But here is the true madness. With those tiny 18 HP, it has an amazing range of up to 720 miles, 1,160 kilometers. You're going to travel from state to state spending way less than you would on a bus ticket. If you're ready to laminate fiberglass and own the most exotic craft at your airport, I remind you that the complete plans will be for sale on my website. I leave the direct link in the video description and in the pinned comment.