Hey Willdo,
Sounds like you have the "Cando" spirit. You would fit right in, here in the USA. I know we dont hold the whole market on ideas, just the best ones, hehehe. Just kiddin'. A few of those countries you listed have made some contributions to society and evolution but a few others would require quit a stretch of the imagination to include in a list of advanced nations that produce any contribution to modern man. By the way I love Swedish meatballs, and volvo's are ok too, but technical advancment? Now I'm not saying that the people in the USA, England and Germany (I include all of these countries satalite's in this list too) are smarter than those in the rest of the world but we all have the freedom to excersize our minds and put our ideas to use more than the others. And yes , America is full of people from around the world and thats what makes us so great. All of the people who were smart enough to know to get the h@#$ out of where they were and come here make us more densly populated with thinkers. AND I am a REAL American, blood member of the Choctaw Nation, but I think my name is Scottish. But this is an airplane site, no body wants to hear about this stuff. Tell us about your home made plane. Do you have any pictures? How is it put together?