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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Cindy Hoedel / The Bulletin
June 26, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At Midwest National Air Center, in Mosley, Mo., a white Piper Cherokee drifts to earth like a paper airplane in the bright twilight, the buzz of its single engine only slightly louder than the chirp of grasshoppers in the surrounding farmland.
On the ground, the plane noses....