"how to" blurb...home made airplane

This weekend a Kitfox homemade airplane crashed into the Columbia River, from the Columbian. An onlooker described it like this: "It was coming in real low, like it was going to land on the (island's) beach. He pulled back up and it stalled on him, and he went straight up and then ended up doing a nose dive." I thought a home make airplane would look like welded tubes and canvas. I met a guy about a year ago who was making one of these and he said it had to be officially inspected at multiple points along the way. Here's the website for the Kitfox...pretty ambitious.