Justin Phillipson has been in the professional pilot industry since 2004. He has instructed for years in everything from private, seaplane, tailwheel to high performer and aerobatics. After 7500 hours of instruction it was time for a change and he now flies a Embraer Regional jet for a west coast operation. He has been racing Formula One at Reno since 2012 and has built two racers with his brother with a third currently in the works.
Leave it to Dick Starks to get his foot in the door of a movie set by supplying WW-I replica aircraft. Once there, leave it to Dick to find trouble, even when hes not looking for it. No worries, though. Alls well that ends well, and the whole experience makes for a story thatll have you laughing out loud.
DAR Mel Asberry answers a reader’s question regarding the Experimental/Amateur-Built eligibility of an airplane he’s building with parts salvaged from a Cessna 175.