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April 2006 Issue

Zenith's Four-Place STOL 801

The answer to the backwoods blues?

Few fields of endeavor offer more examples of specialization than aviation. In fact, so varied and focused are most aircraft designs that if flying were biology, it's easy to imagine Darwin developing the foundation of his theory on natural selection from observing the birds of Oshkosh, rather than the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands.

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