Xiaoxiao Xu

Harvey Milk Terminal 1

Departures - Level 2 - Post-Security
Aug 14, 2018 - Nov 13, 2018
Yuan Xiangqiu holds a model airplane his son made in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province  2015
A farmer watching aircraft flying in the sky  2015
Birdcage in Zhang Dousan’s backyard  2015
Zhang Dousan works in construction and works on Dousan No. 5 in his spare time—he has spent three years and more than $70,000 working on this coaxial-type helicopter  2015   
Aviator He Dongbiao owns a company called Galaxy Helicopters which sells DIY helicopter kits  2015
Damaged airplane bodies are kept in storage at Su Guibin’s factory  2015
He Dongbiao sits inside his helicopter Low Altitude Free Man, which utilizes an MZ202 aeromotor. It took him one year to construct and flies as high as 1,300 feet  2015
Wang Qiang refits the engine for his airplane in his backyard in Cixi, Zhejiang Province  2015
Wang Qiang’s son plays with a toy airplane  2015
Industrial area where Wang Qiang often takes his airplane for test flights  2015
Jin Shaozhi shows off the Sky Horse, a fixed-wing aircraft with a steel frame, aluminum tubing, and a Rotax 447 motor  2015
The city where Yuan Xiangqiu lives is undergoing major development  2015
Wang Qiang sits inside the Wang Qiang No.2, a fixed-wing aircraft that uses a Yamaha engine from a boat. He spent approximately four months and $5,000 to construct the aircraft, which can reach an altitude of nearly 5,000 feet  2015
Yuan Xiangqiu gazes out the window of his home in Tiantai, Zhejiang province. The 65-year-old said he was inspired to build a plane the first time he saw one on television. "I can teach myself to be a carpenter, and I can make a rice thresher, so I can surely build an airplane too," he remembers thinking  2015