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Flight fan building his own airplane

Weekends spent in barn with thick manuals and parts

Monday, October 29, 2012
By Alan Ginsburg  
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When Dan Brown of Altamont was a child, he watched with fascination as fighter jets took off from the former Suffolk County Air Force Base near his family home on Long Island...
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