[1][2][3] Hovey set out to create the lightest aircraft to carry a person ever to fly, with the resulting design being a biplane, with a plywood box filled with Polyurethane foam serving as the fuselage, supporting the pilot's seat.

The aircraft features a conventional fabric-covered empennage carried at the end of a short tailboom made of aluminum tube.

The specified pusher configuration powerplant is a McCulloch chainsaw engine turning a hand-carved wooden propeller via a chain drive.

[2] On 22 June 2022, the Dingo,[6] a full metal replica of the Hovey Whing Ding, designed by Marek Ivanov since 2021, took maiden flight by test pilot Jan Jílek at the Jaroměř airport (LKJA).

[9] My long-time dream was to build something like Hovey Whing Ding because I like it, but a little bigger so I can fly it.Depending on the density altitude and the weight of the pilot, some builders discovered that the aircraft was under powered and suffered from too small a wing area to climb out of ground effect.