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- ↑ R.I.P. Frank Kingston Smith 'Weekend Pilot' Now Borne on Better Wings, AERO-News Network, Jim Campbell, September 5, 2003. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
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- ↑ AOPA News. "Longtime aviation author Frank Kingston Smith dies", AOPA News, Web, March 2005. Retrieved on 13 November 2014.