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Aviation Press Comments
Here's what the aviation press says about this book:
"Dick Starks' tribulations and loss of innocence are your
gain. His mixture of humor, philosophy, and technical stuff
offers a unique insight into the slightly warped mind of a
dedicated aircraft homebuilder."
--Dave Martin, editor of KITPLANES
"This is a great story of affordable personal aviation seldom
told outside of the sometimes tight little circle of the
Experimental Aircraft Association aero-nuts."
--Frank Kingston Smith, author of Weekend Pilo
"Dick has truly caught the flavor of learning to fly as well
as the trials and tribulations of building an airplane . . .
with his great sense of humor adding some spice."
--Mary Jones, editor of EAA Experimenter
"He bumbles, fumbles, and stumbles at even the most simple
tasks, yet lives. Worse than that, he has the utter lack of
shame to sit down and reveal it all in this book. . . For all
his confessions of fear and humble bumbling, the man has the
most direct thinking process, understands what he wants, goes
for it without a lot of shilly-shallying, and is also a quick
study."
--Gordon Baxter, columnist for FLYING
About the Author
Dick Starks' interest in aviation started at an early age.
When he was a prattling babe, he cut his teeth on an old pitot
tube that his father gave him to play with. As soon as he was
old enough to walk, he learned to fly U-control model planes and
remembers sitting on the garage floor in a litter of balsa
shavings as he and his dad labored to put his latest crash
together.
Dick started writing about flying as a lark, approaching this
pursuit with his usual eagerness and zeal. His work has
appeared in such magazines as KITPLANES, The EAA
Experimenter, and Homebuilt Aircraft. This is his
first book.
Dick lives in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife, Sharon (also
a pilot), his daughter, Tricia, and an assortment of cats, dogs,
attack geese, and aircraft parts.
You may contact the author via e-mail at:
dstarks@oz.sunflower.org
About the Illustrator
Bob Stevens (1923 - 1994)
Bob was, and is, the premiere aviation cartoonist. He had a
lot of flying experience to draw on, so to speak. After being
commissioned as an Air Corps pilot in 1943, Bob flew nearly
every WWII fighter plane in the U.S. arsenal and later went on
to clock a world speed record of 711.75 mph in an F-86A jet.
Bob's hand on the pen proved to be as deft as his hand on the
control stick; his cartoon series called "There I Was..." ran
for over 25 years in AlR FORCE magazine. On the civilian
side, his illustrated humor graced the pages of Professional
Pilot, Private Pilot, and KITPLANES magazines,
as well as a number of books.
His honors include four Lincoln Day awards, five National
Freedom Foundation Honor Medals, and two Pulitzer nominations.
When Bob agreed to illustrate You Want to Build and Fly a
WHAT? he was fighting cancer and told us that he believed
this would be his last professional job. We are so glad that he
was willing and able to add his incomparable touch to the book,
and so sorry that his prophecy turned out to be true.
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