Choppergirl says: if you are a civilized monkey you are welcome to touch and sit in Dorothy and play with her controls without asking... * however* if you are being mean to Dorothy and hurting her in any mean way I will kick you off in a New York Second.  So be nice to Dorothy and I will be nice to you.  :-)    
Please note: my rules do not apply to other people's airplanes who more than likely do not wish you to mess with their airplanes.

Meet Dorothy, Choppergirl's Volmer Jensen VJ-24W
She is a VJ-24W kit licensed and produced by DSK Airmotive, so her  technical name is:
1980 DSK AIRCRAFT CORP FLATLANDER DS-5P 
There are less than 10 VJ-24W's in the world, and 2 are in museums.  There are only 2 DSK DS-5P kit versions in the world, and Dorothy is one of them.  The other is owned by DSK which is now defunct.
The VJ-24W was the world's first ultralight motorglider, and one of the earliest ultralights to herald in the Golden Age of Ultralight aviation that blossomed in the early 1980's.
Interesting Facts about Dorothy:
Dorothy was a barn find bought on Ebay for $38, found behind someone's storage shed rotting in the weather, originally bought at auction.  She was brought home from Trenton, PA via a 1300 mile round trip, and restored by Choppergirl
She was restored by Choppergirl as what she calls the Bare Minimum Airplane Project, to build a 3 axis control wheeled airplane for as little as possible.  Total cost to restore Dorothy was ______

The VJ-24W was designed by Volmer Jensen, who was an early pioneer of glider aviation in the United States who built gliders as far back as 1925 as a boy.  Volmer Jensen designed and built the Starship Enterprise seen in the opening credits of the Star Trek TV Show.  That model is now in the Smithsonian
The VJ-24W wing was designed by Irv Culver, who worked for Lockheed and coined the name "Skunkworks".  He worked on the P-38, Maupin gliders,and SR-71 Blackbird.  He also was awarded a patent for a rigid wing rotor system which set world speed records for helicopters and laid the foundation for aerobatic helicopters.
Choppergirl's grandfather was a WW2 fighter pilot who flew P-38's, P-39's, and P-47's out of New Guinea.  He went on 147 missions, mostly bomber escort, and jumped out of a burning plane, and once from a P-39 in a parachute.  His wing leader Sully's P-38 "Marlee II" still sits on the jungle floor in New Guinea, and is the subject of an Indie film called "Injury Slight, Please Advise".   
Choppergirl's other grandfather was a motorcycle courier in the Wehrmacht in WW2; her uncle drove a suply truck in Vietnam, and her dad was an air traffic controller at Bush Field in Augusta, GA.
Choppergirl designed a video game mod with 100,000 players
DSK Airmotive designed an monoplane called the DSK-1 Hawk, which had a fuselage built around a surplus 200 gallon military drop tank.  They sold plans and kits for gliders and airplanes called the Duster, Dynamite, Hawk, Golden Hawk, Drifter, and Flatlander.
There is a hang glider version of the VJ-24W, called the VJ-24E or just VJ-24.  The previous design verison, the VJ-23 motor glider which was of wooden construction and had a tapered wing, was the first motor glider to fly the English Channel using a 9hp engine, by David Cook.  He was awared the Merit Achievement by Prince Charles for this.

If you would like to learn more about Dorothy and Choppergirl, visit our website at  http://air-war.org
You can find her Build Log on HomeBuiltAircraft.com, where many of the awesome guys there gave me lots of input and advice.
CHOPPERGIRL
http://choppergirl.air-war.org
Fly it like you stole it...

Include some pictures on one of the board of mockups and build pictures