"Brad Mallard" wrote in message
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Can anyone recommend good starter books for someone wanting to build a
plane
from scratch? FAA requirements, Materials, Load calculations... that sort
of
thing.

I like my Tony Bengelis books which you can buy through EAA, also Burt
Rutan's moldless foam construction for composite aircraft, plus Jack
Lambie's book on composite aircraft, plus AC 43-13 (FAA Advisory
Circular --- a right thick paperback) which you can find on the internet if
you don't want to buy the paperback, and if you want to really get technical
buy all the books cited by Mike Arnold in his bibliography appended to the
AR-5 videotapes he sells, which are indispensable for the composite
scratchbuilder.