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6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 31, 2017 Friendly skies Cottage Grove couple living their dream with matching planes By Ben Sclair For 23 years now, Donna Svoboda and Dennis Reynolds have traveled the country together, in different airplanes. She in her Citabria, him in his Pacer. For The Sentinel No longer. Sort of. After nearly four years of building Donna and Dennis will fl y the skies in their matching – but different – Bearhawk Patrols. Delivery of their kits was in February 2013 at their Cottage Grove home. Dennis’ fi rst fl ight was on January 25, 2017 Donna fl ew a day later on January 26. “The weather went sour on us,” said Dennis. “So I fl ew mine Sunday and Donna fl ew hers the next day.” So after four years of building, what was that fi rst fl ight like? "Awesome. That's all can say. It was just awesome,” said Donna. "I’ve been fl ying behind a 115 horse power Citabria for 23 years. You couldn't slap that smile off my face.” “After the fi rst fl ights, we both looked at each other and decided that four years was well worth it,” continued Dennis. Prior to building their Patrols, Donna had no aircraft building experience while Dennis recovered and converted his Tri-Pacer to a Pacer back in the 1980s. And “I’ve been building a Mustang II for too long a time. It’s still not fi nished.” The pair approached their Patrols like a job. "The four years was pretty much every day,” noted Donna. "When you approach a proj- ect like that, you know it's huge. But I had no idea how huge. I told myself, this is my job. I'm going to get up and I'm going to go to work, and go out there about nine o'clock. We'd come back at fi ve, every day.” It helps that both are retired. Donna from a local power company in Michigan where she fl ew pipeline patrol in a Cessna 185 “which was an awesome way to earn a paycheck.” Dennis retired after 37 years with the Chrysler Corporation. Aside from visiting a couple of newborn babies and attending a funeral back in Michigan, Donna and Dennis worked the builds nearly every day. “No vacations,” continued Donna. “I wanted this done and fl ying. I’m not a builder, I’m a fl yer.” When Donna and Dennis completed a task on one Patrol, they immediately moved over to the other one to complete the same task. They found that to be the most effi cient use of the experience they were gathering. The only challenge the duo ran in to was painting. “That’s a sore subject,” noted Donna. “I think that was the most painful part of the whole process,” continued Dennis. “We’ve discovered that if we had to make a living painting, we’d starve.” Sadly, for them, they hired out the painting after four months of trying to make it work. Donna noted, the paint is anyone’s “fi rst impression of the plane,” and they wanted it to look sharp. THE PLANES Why'd you select the Patrol? "Dennis’ investigating found the Patrol,” said Donna. “He pretty much talked me into building it, for the purpose of the characteristics of slow fl ight and the fast speed on the other end. Tandem seating was what we were looking for." “We ordered the quick build kit with the quick build wings,” said Donna. “I would never have done this if we had to do it from scratch.” “Having to build two airplanes, we wanted the best head start we could get,” continued Dennis. In the end, aside from paint color, the two Patrols are nearly iden- tical. Donna doesn’t have a skylight, Dennis does. Dennis has an ADS-B In receiver, Donna doesn’t. The planes differs in weight by just two pounds. Each Patrol has an ECI O-360 spinning a Whirlwind con- stant-speed propeller and “they just perform beautifully”. COMMUNITY Dennis noted that both Bob Barrows (the original designer of the Patrol) and Mark Goldberg (owner of Bearhawk Aircraft) provided invaluable help to Donna and Dennis. 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