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Once upon a time, general aviation aircraft manufacturers pursued market niches with the ferocity of wild dingoes.

AVweb Les Krumel invested 22 years building his award-winning Thorp T-18. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always liked to make things, and I thought an airplane would be the ultimate project,” said Les Krumel of Moriarty, New Mexico, a mechanical engineer who recently retired as a civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force who worked on aerospace projects. That understatement defines his humble personality. Making almost every part, Krumel invested 22 years in his project, and ...