Tom McNerney of Blue Springs recently won a first-place award for this custom-built airplane, shown outside its hangar at the Lee's Summit Municipal Airport, at a prestigious fly-in convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. [Mike Genet/The Examiner]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net Although he turned a hobby for building parts for small aircraft into a full-time business years ago, Tom McNerney never planned…