You Want to Build and Fly a WHAT?
by Dick Starks
Illustrated by Bob Stevens
2nd Printing
256 pages, softcover
many cartoons and photos
$15.95
Butterfield Press, ISBN 0-932579-06-X
This is one truly funny book! Readers have told us they couldn't put it down and couldn't stop laughing. It's the boisterous, riotous, wildly exaggerated but true story of Dick Starks, a math teacher who goes through the agonies and delights of learning to fly, buys a down-in-the-tires Cessna 120, then gets bitten by the homebuilding bug and goes on to build and fly a replica of a WWI Nieuport 11 fighter plane. Most of all, You Want to Build and Fly a WHAT? is about the fun of flying and the joy of sharing that fun with family and friends. It is hilariously illustrated by aviation's greatest cartoonist, Bob Stevens. A wonderful gift, or buy it for yourself and laugh harder than you have in ages. For more details, click here.
"Dick has truly caught the flavor of learing to fly, as well as the trials and tribulations of building an airplane... with his great sense of humor adding spice."
--Mary Jones, editor of EAA Experimenter