Meet the Man Who Escaped the Soviet Bloc in a Homemade Plane

The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn’t for everyone. It’s lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zdarsky, it’s home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped Czechoslovakia in a homemade aircraft, lives in an airplane hangar about 25 miles from his nearest neighbor. Like we said, Lucin isn’t for everyone.

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