December 2009
VOL. 58, NO. 12
www.EAA.org C O N T E N T S
LSA the Homebuilt Way Kenny Johnson’s clipped wing Super Cub Budd Davisson For scratchbuilder Kenny Johnson, EAA 37494, just getting his private pilot certificate took 40 years. But, along the way, and well before he got his certificate, he discovered that building airplanes was something he njoyed so much that he couldn’t not do it. 26
FEATURES
Kenny Johnson
34 This One Is for George
A flying tribute to friendship
Scott Westover and Reggie Paulk
I wish I had met George Wheeler before he
passed away. In some ways, after talking
with Chris May, I felt as though I had. But the
airplane Chris completed in George’s honor
told me he was a true craftsman.
42 A Modern Day Barnstormer
Sarah Wilson finds her aviation niche
Jim Busha
As we chased our shadow over Midwestern
cornfields in Sarah Wilson’s Stearman, I
couldn’t help but look up in the rearview mirror
and watch Sarah. I could tell there was no
other place in the world she wanted to be at
that moment.
50 Propellers
A survey
Gerald H. McKibben
The great Will Rogers once quipped that
if you were to lay all economists head to
toe, they wouldn’t reach a conclusion.
It would appear the same can be said
of airplane builders with respect to
propeller choices.
60 Learning to Fly
...Twice
Chris Luvara
My first experience with aviation wasn’t
gripping a stick while strapped in the
back of a J -3; it was flying model
airplanes with my father.
