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For the A&P student or aircraft homebuilder in your family, a 71-piece
student sheet metal tool kit from Isham, Inc. can be a great starter kit. It
includes cleco fasteners in several sizes, cleco pliers for inserting and removing the fasteners, as well as several key drill bits, countersink bits, a
high-speed air drill, bucking bar, and of course, your choice of a 3x or 4x
rivet gun and accessories. All of the pieces fit neatly into a soft-side easy-carry bag. Purchased individually these items could cost more than $700,
but the kit retails for $479.95 at
www.planetools.com.
Student Sheet
Metal Tool Kit
Claire Bear’s First Solo
by Sue Hughes, Illustrated by Wang Dai Yu
Claire Bear’s First Solo is one of a series of Claire Bear books written by Sue Hughes and illustrated by Wang Dai Yu, all available from
waistore.org and PowderPuffpilot.
com, author Sue Hughes’ web site, or by calling
(937) 839-4647.
Turns out that Claire Bear’s mother, who
is also her flight instructor, is a pretty cool
cookie. In this 40-page “read-to-me” book
Hughes gets all the essential “
around-the-pat-tern” vocabulary in as we share in Claire Bear’s
great day. — A.L.
ISBN: 978-0-9840603-1-3
Published by Powder Puff Pilot, Aurora, CO
Softcover; 40 pages; $9.95; www.waistore.org
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DvD review
Close Calls: Lessons to Live By
by James Clark Productions
Pilots bob Hoover and wayne Handley have been there,
literally. learn from their experi-
ences what to do, and what not to
do in airplanes. eavesdrop in as
these first-rate aviators talk about
scrapes and close-calls from years
of aviating, and how their strate-
gies saved their lives, and the lives
of their passengers.
The DvD costs $24.95 and is
available from James clark Produc-
tions at
www.closecallsflying.
com or by calling (831) 421-9199.
