You Want to Build and Fly a WHAT?
by Dick Starks
Illustrated by Bob Stevens
2nd Printing
256 pages, softcover
many cartoons and photos
$14.95
Butterfield Press, ISBN 0-932579-06-X
Looking for a great gift for your pilot (or wannabe pilot) friends, or for yourself? This is it! Folks who order one copy of this hilarious book come back to us for more copies in order to bring the gift of laughter to their friends. You Want to Build and Fly a WHAT? is the boisterous, wildly exaggerated true story of Dick Starks, a Kansas City math teacher who goes through the agonies and delights of learning to fly under the guidance of an old veteran CFI and A&P named Virgil, buys a down-in-the-tires Cessna 120 and learns about the tribulations of aircraft ownership the hard way.
Dick then gets bitten by the homebuilding bug and goes on to build and fly a replica of a WWI Nieuport 11 fighter plane. He becomes part of the "Dawn Patrol", a group of airborne lunatics who fly out of a tiny strip and are constantly challenging one another to strange types of aerial combat.
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 the greatest aviation cartoonist of all time, Bob Stevens.
If you don't love this book, return it within 30 days for a refund of the purchase price.
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