The term experimental aircraft carries an ominous suggestion of danger. If it's experimental, it might still have glitches that could send you plummeting out of the sky in a hurry. Besides, nonmilitary experimental planes are often built from kits out in the pilot's garage or barn. It's pretty obvious that you would need to have a death wish--or at least a reckless soul--to go up in one.
Yet what's obvious isn't always true. The plane in which John Denver died last week was indeed an experimental aircraft, a model called the Long-EZ. But it would be naive to assume that the...
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