Sparky Barnes
Sparky Barnes is an active pilot and longtime aviation author and photographer. She has written three aviation books and was the 2006 recipient of the Bax Seat Trophy, which is awarded to the EAA member who best communicates “the excitement and romance of grassroots aviation.” Sparky personally restored her 1948 Piper Vagabond.
The Stanley Screamer is One Sleek Sherpa!
“I may never be able to buy an airplane…but maybe I can build one!”
—Dale Stanley
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In the early 1960s, a young Jim Katz was absorbing page after page in Air Progress magazine, and when he saw an article that...
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