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Dick Starks

Dick Starks
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Dick Starks has written two books about the joy of flying; “You Want To Build And Fly A What?” and “Fokkers At Six O’clock!!” He was the recipient of Flying’s 2001 Bax Seat Award “for perpetuating the Gordon Baxter tradition of communicating the excitement and romance of flight.” Dick and his wife, Sharon, both fly WW-I replica aircraft.

The Dawn Patrol

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You know you're gonna get some, sooner or later.

The Dawn Patrol

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Was he packin heat?

The Dawn Patrol

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I love a parade.

The Dawn Patrol

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Get out the duct tape!

Coming to a Theater Near You

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The Dawn Patrol helps build an S.E.5a for a movie.

The Dawn Patrol

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Beware the numbers.

The Dawn Patrol

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C-C-C-C-Coffee please!

The Dawn Patrol

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Fun with the Hun in the sun.

The Dawn Patrol

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Blood on the sock, 2013.

The Dawn Patrol

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“Hey, who you callin’ old?”

In Case You Missed it

RANS S-19

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When new aircraft from two very different designers, in this case Randy Schlitter and Richard VanGrunsven, surface with considerable similarities, consensus about basic design tenets must be blowing in the wind. Certainly Light Sport regs do constrain performance considerations, but human factors are more up for grabs, and that’s where one or another design can truly shine; by Marc Cook.

Ask the DAR

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Modifying different types of Light Sport Aircraft, updating Phase II operating limitations.

Firewall Forward: Oil Coolers and Oil Lines

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The right oil cooler, installed correctly, can maximize your engine’s life. Of course, you’ll also need to consider crankcase breathers, oil separators, oil filters, oil lines and connections.

Rear Cockpit

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Youthful ignorant that I was, it took a few years for me to realize...