And this is how much an aircraft is the builder versus the "kit" provided.*

My N11 is really a 7/8ths scale version of his N17, to the point that mine had all the N17 measurements crossed out and new ones for me written on top of them in the plans - and Dale's plane is way past basic function and into art.

I don't know if Dale mentioned it in this thread, but at every step he's talked to Robert Baslee, designer of the plane, about the changes and improvements on the basic plans....he's being very, very smart about deviations.

* "Kit" in the Airdrome Airplane world means a big crate with a stapled set of plans and all the items on the material list in it (but not the material list itself - that's a State Secret). The gussets are pre-cut, but every tube has to be cut down, bent, and coped. Every hole has to be drilled. It's a mixture between pure plans built and kits as we think of them today (CNC cut, pre-drilled, etc).