![Meet the Man Who Escaped the Soviet Bloc in a Homemade Plane!](https://wingsoverkansas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ilPGLj87ybo-678x381.jpg)
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 hanger about 25 miles from his nearest neighbor. Like we said, Lucin isn’t for everyone.