On the east coast, USA, in the summer of 1970, Robert G. Mixon of Miami, Florida, built and flew a Chanute-type biplane based on a plan found in a 1909 Popular Mechanics.
The local paper ran a front page headline “Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machine” on 15 June 1970. A local TV station even took some footage of a cliff launch. Mixon did it out of frustration due to the high cost of conventional flying.
Later, he offered plans, because of a large number of requests for his story which appeared in the February 1971 issue of Sport Aviation.
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