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NEW ZEALAND SPORT FLYING - Autumn 2011
THE MAGAZINE OF THE SPORT AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION NZ (Inc)
FRONT COVER: Grand Champion for 2011 at Ashburton was Jim Talbot's recently completed RV-7A. He flies it here near the Bay of Plenty's Kaituna River. 
Camera plane Cessna 172 flown by Ryan Schick. Cover story page 8. Photograph © John King
CONTENTS
4 The Sport Flier's World
5 The Administrator's File
6 Configurations
7 Airmail
8 Cover Story: Aluminium Surgery
11 The Hickman Hangar: Getting over it
12 The F4B-2
14 I went to the airshow!
17 One hundred years ago
18 The Corby Starlet and Kestrel:Design Background
21 Building superlight Part 3: Flying the tiny french twin
24 Great Plains Fly-in 2011: Pictorial coverage
26 Obituary: Ian Royds
27 Promoting our sport
28 Three men in a floatplane
32 Cheaper by the dozen
35 The RPL: The story so far
36 The magic of the safari
39 The Cessna 185's half-century
40 CH701 nearly ready
41 Jodel fly-in planned for Taieri
42 Propeller strikes
43 Tigers flock to Omaka
47 Classified advertisements
BACK COVER: T
he wooden Corby Starlet (back) has matured into the metal Kestrel, flown by Don Wilkinson and Gary Montagu at Ashburton during the Great Plains Fly-in and seen from Graeme Weck's Murphy Rebel ZK-WEC. Back cover story page 18. Photograph © John King.