"Every week I get two or three calls from people interested in building an airplane."

"This is like trying to build an airplane in flight," he said.

Building an airplane is easier than it used to be for technical reasons, too.

"Until we get that information, we're not building airplanes," he said.

Come the 1970s, he became the first Kenyan to build an airplane.

To emphasize the point, consider the issue of choosing a material for building an airplane.

It's like building an airplane but not making it fly.

I wish I could build airplanes the way he does.

You can't build an airplane and not know basic wing structure.

One reason is that it builds airplanes in the Ukraine, where labor rates are lower.