Homebuilt Aerobatics
Mark McKibben’s Super Starduster started out its life in the skilled hands of father-son team, Dick and Tom Green. See the November-December 2023 article about the rebuild: www.iac.org/magazines
Father-Son Team build the Super-Starduster SS101
Text and Photo by Editor Jean Sorg
Sport Aerobatics, December 1984
From the cockpit of a Continental 747 airliner to the building of a competition aerobatics plane, Tom and Dick Green share a very special father-son relationship in aviation.
Flying together is in the past since the elder Green’s retirement but jointly building and modifying their homebuilt aircraft, the latest of which is a modified Starduster called a Super-Starduster, is very much in the present. The 71-year-old Tom readily admits that he especially likes constructing airplanes and just plain working on them in general.
"I like to work with my hands. I'm a tinkerer," he describes himself.
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