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BABY P-38 Texan Jim O’Hara learned to fly when he was 62, an age that most student pilots would assume was on short final to geezer-dom. Yet just four years later, O’Hara, a retired Tulane University aeronautical engineering professor, began to design and construct his own airplane—from scratch. At 81 he has completed his project, …
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