A Chinese farmer couldn’t fly a plane, so he built one

This aerial photo taken on October 25, 2018 shows people working on a full-size replica of an Airbus A320 passenger aircraft in Kaiyuan, China. -AFP

BEIJING: When a Chinese garlic farmer’s dream of flying an airplane didn’t pan out, he decided to build one instead.

The full-scale replica of the Airbus A320 built by farmer Zhu Yue is now nearly finished, permanently taxied on a short piece of tarmac surrounded by wheat fields in northeast China.