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Cirrus is planning to take control of the skies by not actually thinking like an airplane maker, says CEO Alan Klapmeier, 44, who along with his brother Dale, 42, founded the company. The two--who started tinkering with user-friendly, homemade planes in their parents' dairy barn near Baraboo, Wis., in the mid-1980s--created Cirrus from a clean sheet of paper. "Plane design and performance hadn't really changed in decades," says Alan, a physics major, who is determined to make flying more accessible. "We were convinced there was a market for a very safe, smartly designed, high-performance...
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