First Crack 61. Building an Airplane at Home with Jeff Coffey
September 16th, 2005 by 
Garrick Van Buren
For 3 1/2 years, Jeff Coffey built an airplane in his garage. Over 28 minutes, he takes you from $900 of aluminum sheets to the first, anxiety-ridden flight.
Listen to Building an Airplane at Home with Jeff Coffey [28 min]
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June 23rd, 2006 at 6:12 am
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Jeff’s airplane tale, every minute of it. I’m a new pilot, and the way Jeff tells it I kinda might like to try something like this myself one day. Thumbs up on a good audio show.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:44 pm
HI,
I listened to Jeffs airplane building story and enjoyed it, He is easy to listen to. What brought alot of my attention to him is I saw him on Star Tomorrow and I saw the last name of Coffey. Well, my mothers maiden name was Coffey and there are not really all that many of them that I know of and I thought how cool another Coffey. Also, I am one of 12 kids and there are musically talented family members in my family as well. How neat to have come across another talented Coffey. This is soooo cool! HI JEFF, ARE WE RELATED BY ANY CHANCE?
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I enjoyed it also, I’m 16 and I’m actually saving up to build a mini-max, a t-bird ll, or an affordaplane. Thanks for the story its a real uplifter.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Great podcast and editing! I am in the process of researching what my first kit plane will be. My first consideration was a RV7A, but my current consideration is now an RV10, (only because my wife says it has to be a 4 passenger) After listening about the actual thought processes that come and go year after year during a build (I plan on taking 4-6 years) I am leaning more towards a QB quick build kit. This option will cost thousands more, but could cut years of the total build. Just having that as an option is a big motivational perk for me.