EAA Sport Aviation - February 2011

A PUBLICATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION FEATURES

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Model for Success RC school makes full-scale dreams come true Dave Scott goes big. By Steve Schapiro

P. 28 Two-Place Treasures Shopping for the classics Reviewing the greats By Budd Davisson

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Homebuilders in Space Five astronauts and the planes they built Mixing homebuilts and space shuttles By James Wynbrandt

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Best Buy Piston Twins Prices for used light twins have never been more attractive Popular models revealed By J. Mac McClellan

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Bringing Airplane Fantasies to Life Modernized WWI fighters equal fun flying Robert Baslee’s World War I replicas By Earl C. Downs

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM KOEPNICK

BUDD DAVISSON

“The [Aeronca Chief] is the soul of docility, easier than a Citabria to land but with more adverse yaw than almost any airplane you’re likely to fly.”

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