Several U.S. firms have expressed an interest in a design for an ultra-lightweight aluminium aircraft developed by a police man and amateur flying enthusiast in the northern Greek city of Florina, who has successfully built two fully functioning planes.
George Iliopoulos was unable to afford his own plane on a policeman’s salary but got the idea of building one using the materials at hand during a visit to specialist stores in Canada.His first prototype was built almost entirely of recycled wood, using old furniture, a wheelchair and a car engine. This first plane was name the ‘Lygkistis’ and for a while he thought he would not repeat the attempt in his lifetime.
It was not long, however, before he was back to the drawing board designing..
