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by Espie uButchu Joyce
QlJt It seem possible but soon
it will be time for EAA Oshkosh 90 It is difficult for a person (unless they have been involved as a volunteer) to imagine how much planning goes into putting on this event
In the AntiqueClassic area of the convention alone we have the followshying
I AC Headquarters building 2 Three tents including the
type clubs OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and workshop tent
3 One judges trailer 4 The volunteer building 5 Four parking posts for airshy
craft 6 One manpower post 7 One membership amp chapter
post 8 Fifteen golf carts 9 Forty tables amp 130 chairs
This list can go on and on These are only the material things
In my mind the high quality of our Chairmen and volunteer staff make the AC area of the convention the best We have over the past years been trend setters To keep this trend going the Chairmen need the help of volunteers Volunteers like you
I would like to list these Chairmen so you might if interested contact one 2 JUNE 1990
GHT AND LEVEL
of these people to see if you could be of help AC Parking amp Flight Line Safety Art Morgan 414442-3631 AC Forums John Berendt 507263shy2414 Antique Judging Dale Gustafson 3171 293-4430 Classic Judging George York 419529shy4378 AC Manpower Gloria Beecroft 2131 427-1880 Parade of Flight Phil Coulson 617624shy6490 Headquarters Staff Kate Morgan 4141 442-3613 AC Security Jim Mahoney AlC Press Larry DAttilio 4141784shy0318 AC Maintenance Stan Gomoll 6121 784-1172 Interview Circle Charles Harris 9181 742-7311 Type Club Headquartes Joe Dickey 812342-6878 AC Picnic Steve Nesse 507373-1674 AC Flyout Bob Lumley 4141782-2633 Hall of Fame Union Dean Richardson 608833-1291 Welcoming Committee Jack Copeland 617366-2745 Membership amp Chapter Booth Bob Brauer 3121779-2105 Photo Contest Jack McCarthy 3171 371-1290 AC Flight Safety Buck Hilbert 8151 923-4591 AlC Pioneer Video Jeannie Hill 8151 943-7205 OX-5 Pioneers Bob Wallace 301686shy9242 Volunteer Host Judith Wyrembeck Data Process Thomas Auger 715287shy4262 AlC Workshop George Meade 4141 926-2428
I need to make you aware of some details related to these activities If you wish to participate in the Parade of Flight you need to contact Phil Coul-
U ~ w trying to register these people in advance of the fly-in this year
As we will not be having the Rivershyboat Cruise this year (because the boat has been sold) Steve and Jeannie are planning something special for our AI C Picnic this year This event will be held on Sunday night of the convenshytion This is a good opportunity to have a good meal without the hassle and the traffic and lines at different restaurants on this busy night
Our AC Parking area is once again being expanded with the movement of the Ultralight area to west of the airshyport The showplace camping will have a new portable shower located in the south tree line Also we have been promised that the present showers will be improved
As you can see we are working hard to make your visit to Oshkosh 1990 in the AC area a good one Please drop by AC Headquarters and meet everyone Sit on the porch and make yourself at home
This month you will find the Officshyers and Directors running for election Please mail in your ballot or proxy These people are willing to put forth a good deal of work to make your AC Division the best One of your Direcshytors Dan Neuman has decided to reshytire as a Director of the AC Division Dan has served your Division with deshydication and loyalty Dans input to our activities will be missed Dan we all wish you the best Bob Lickteig the past president of your Division was selected to fill the unexpired term of Dan Neuman I would like to welcome Bob aboard His knowledge and exshyperience will be most welcome
Should any of you have any input for the good of the AC Division please contact me and I will get back with you as soon as possible
Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Join us and have it all
PUBLICATION STAFF PUBLISHER
Tom Poberezny
VICE-PRESIDENT MARKETING amp COMMUNICATIONS
Dick Mall
EDITOR Mark Phelps
MANAGING EDITOR Golda Cox
ART DIRECTOR Mike Drucks
ADVERnSING Mary Jones
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Norman Petersen Dick Cavin
FEAnJRE WRITERS George A Hardie Jr Dennis Parks
EDITORIAl ASSISTANT Isabelle Wiske
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Jim Koepnlck Carl Schuppel
Jefflsom
EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC
OFFICERS President Vice President
Espie Butch Joyce Arthur R Morgan 604 Highway SI 3744 North 51st Blvd
Madison NC 27025 Milwaukee WI 53216 919427-0216 414442-3631
Secretary Treasurer George S Yo rk E E Buck Hilbe rt
181 Sloboda Ave PO Box 424 Mansfield OH 44906 Union IL 60180
419529-4378 815923-4591
DIRECTORS Robert C Bob Brauer John S Copeland
9345 S Hoyne 9 Joanne Drive Chicago IL 60620 Westborough MA 01581
312779-2105 508366-7245 Philip Coulson Will iam A Eickhoff
28415 Springbrook Dr 41515th Ave NE Lawton M149065 St Petersburg FL 33704
616624-6490 813823-2339 Charles Harris Stan Gomoll
3933 South Peoria 1042 90th Lane NE Po Box 904038 Minneapolis MN 55434 Tulsa OK 74105 6121784-1172
9181742-7311 Robert D Bob Lumley
Dale A Gustafson 1265 South 124th St 7724 Shady Hill Drive Brookfield WI 53005
Indianapolis IN 46278 4141782-2633 317293-4430 Gene Morris Steven C Nesse
115C Steve Court RR 2 2009 Highland Ave Roanoke TX 76262 Albert Lea MN 56007
817491-9110 507373-1674 SH oWes Schmid
2359 Lefeber Avenue Wauwatosa WI 53213
414m1-1545
DIRECTOR EMERITUS SJ Willman
7200 SE 85th Lane Ocala FL 32672
904245-7768
ADVISORS John Berendt Gene Chase
7645 Echo Point Rd 2159 Carlton Rd Cannon Falls MN 55009 Oshkosh WI 54904
507263-2414 414231-5002
George Daubner John A Fogerty 2448 Lough Lane 479 Highway 65 Hartford WI 53027 Roberts WI 54023
414673-5885 715425-2455
Jeannie Hili Dean Richardson Po Box 328 6701 Colony Drive
Harvard IL 60033 Madison WI 53717 815943-7205 608833-1291
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Copyright copy 1990 by the EAA AntiquelClassic Division Inc All rights reserved
Contents
2 Straight and Levelby Espie Butch Joyce
4 AC Newslby Mark Phelps
5 Letters to the Editor
6 Members Projectslby Norm Petersen Page 5
8 Vintage Seaplaneslby Norm Petersen
10 Vintage Literaturelby Dennis Parks
14 Interesting Memberlby Charlie Harris
16 Build a Flying Toboggan Iby Paul H Keating EM
18 Father amp Son Cessnalby Mark Phelps Page 6
22 Photos by Kostonlby Ted Koston
24 The Ferris Wheellby Jim Damron
26 Notice of Annual Meeting
28 Pass It To Bucklby E E Buck Hilbert
30 Calendar
Page 2231 Vintage Trader
34 Mystery Planelby George Hardie Jr
FRONT COVER Leon Seale Jr and son Scoote( (Leon III) close in on the photo p la ne for a good look (Photo by Jim Koepnick Photo plane flown by Jim Dorman)
REAR COVER Longtime EAAer Ted Businger liked the old magazine covers on the rear covers of recent Issues of II1NTAGE AIRPLANE so he sent along a collection of his favorites one of which is featured here Thanks Ted
The words EMULTRALIGHT FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION ardhe logos 01 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC EM INTERNAmiddot TIONAL CONVENTION EM ANTIOUECLASSIC DIVISION INC INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB INC WARBIRDS OF AMERICA INC are regslered trademar1lts THE EM SKY SHOPPpound aM logos 01 he EM AVIATION FOUNDATION INC and EM ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION are trademar1lts 01 he above assodalions aM Iheir use by aIrf person oIher han he above assodaIions is sIrdIy prohilited
EcItOOal Policy Readers are encouraged to submrt stories and photltqaphs Policy opirjons expressed in articles are solely those 01 he authors Respoosili lity lor acruracy in repor1ilg rests entirely with he oontrilutor Material should be sent to Em The VINTAGE AIRPLANE Wntrnoo Regional Airport 3000 Poberezny Rd OOosh WI 549Q33086 Pt1ooo4t4l4264800
The VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN OO9tmiddot6943) ~ published and owred exdusive~ by EM AntiqueJC~ DMsioo I 01 he ExperirrentaJ AirCfait Association Iflt and ~ pu~ished monthly at Willman Regional Airport 3000 Poberezny Rd OOosh WI 549Q33086 Second Class Postage paid at Oshkosh WI 54901 and additional mailng oiflCeS Merrbership rates lor EM AntiqueC~ Divisioo lnc are $t800 lor ourrent EM IOOr11bers lor t2 month period 01 IgtIlich $t200 ~ lor he publication 01 The VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership ~ open to all who are nterested in aviation
ADVERTISING - AntiqueClassic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through our advertising We invite constructive cfiticism ard welcome aIrf report 01 inferior merchandise oIJIained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be taken
POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division I PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot3086
Compiled by Mark Phelps
John Lafferty 1914middot1990 It is with deep regret that we report
the passing of John Lafferty (EAA 35501 AIC 8308) of Austin Minshynesota on April 22 1990 Johns life story was chronicled in the February 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Our sympathy is extended to his wife Grace their family many friends and 1990 Taylorcratl
Taylorcraft introduces Ranger Patrol Model
Taylorcraft has introduced its new Ranger Patrol Model designed for law enforcement forestry service pipeline patrol construction survey work wildlife management and other misshysions requiring a rugged STOL airshycraft
The Ranger is available with either a 118-hp or 180-hp engine and a choice of tricycle or conventional landing gear Short term delivery is available within approximately 120 days The Ranger comes standard with clear Plexiglas doors with flip-up windows for photo missions 200-pound cargo capacity with an optional fold-down seat for a rear-seat passenger offers a choice of King or Narco avionics and IIMorrow loran comes with a choice oftailwheels and is certified on floats
Contact Taylorcraft Aircraft Corp (Sales) at 165 Scott Avenue Suite 102
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Morgantown West Virginia 26505 Tel 304291-AERO
New PA-18 struts available Univair Aircraft of Aurora Colshy
orado announces that it now has the new sealed type PA-18 lift struts The struts are FAA-PMA approved and comply with Piper Service Bulletin 910A The struts are manufactured with a bushing welded at the wing atshytach hole and a sealed fork barrel which prevents moisture from entering the strut The inside of the struts is coated with a preservativelsealant in accordance with the Service Bulletin These lift struts also include the larger heavy-duty heat treated 58-inch thread fork The front strut is PIN U89497-02 and sells for $25882 The rear strut is PIN U89498-02 and sells for $18247 Contact U ni vair Aircraft Corp 2500 Himalaya Road Aurora Colorado 80011 Tel 303375-8882
John Lafferty 1914-1990
Autograph hounds Dear Mark
After reading Paul Whitesells letter in April VINTAGE AIRPLANE my first thought was AMEN After re-doing some of the work I paid an IA $38000 for plus parts this really hits home My aircraft is a 1951 Tripacer with 125 hp It is pretty basic The technology is older than the owner The price of a Maule tester will be spent gladly The satisfaction and peace of mind will surely lower tha probability of an ulcer To anyone contemplating doing his own work I highly recommend the type club pertinent to the airplane in my case the Short Wing Piper Club is a wealth of information
Sincerely Robert Farnsworth Pengilly Minnesota
Mr Phelps Id like to take issue with Paul
Whitesells comments about AampPs Maybe his two brothers-in-law are inshycompetent with light aircraft Put the shoe on the other foot As an AampP whos been asked to sign off owners work Ive seen ennumerable examples of incompetence by folks citing the same anti-autograph rhetoric For example
- Only two threads engaged in nuts securing structure (improper grip length to say the least) - Notches cut in structural stringers for clearances - Auto valves in engines (bent after 200 hours) - Propeller cut two inches shorter than data sheet allowance - Number 10 screws in rudder cable end fittings instead of 14-inch bolts - No primary stops on ailerons - Not to mention the piles of illegal paperwork (or lack of it) Ive come across
Maybe there are a few AampPs who are out to make a quick buck off their licenses but to conversely say that every owner is capable and has the right to sign off his work is not the answer There are good and bad plumshybers electricians and movie actors shyyoure free to spend your money where you choose
A good AampP and a conscientious owner go hand in hand Two pairs of eyes and ears is always better While the AampP may know less than Paul about his particular Bonanza he should know considerably more than the average owner about whats airshyworthy and legal The two should be working together to keep these old
birds flying
Walt Hankinson (EAA 275854 AC 11908) AampP 148363063 Shiloh New Jersey
Mystery cowl Dear Editor
Enclosed are two photos of a cowl I would like to identify It is a NACA type measuring 32 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep and is apparently for a three-cylinder radial Any help you can give me would be appreciated
Sincerely Richard Danio 12 Clinton Avenue Wallingford Connecticut 06492 Tel 203269-1941
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
MEMBERS~ PROJECTS by Norm Petersen
A smiling Dennis Trone (EM 584 AlC 9214) stands by his latest restoration project a 1927 Waco DSO NC605N SIN 3006 which he recently acquired from the Peter Bryn estate in Dazey North Dakota One of only seven Hissoshypowered DSO models still on the FAA register this particushylar airplane is featured on page 116 of Juptners Volume I - when it had been restored in the early 1950s by the same Dennis Trone in California This time the restoration will be under the direction of Gar Williams of Naperville Illinois and Dennis is looking forward to flying his old friend from 40 years ago Upon disassembly of the big Hisso engine Gar remarked that the quality of workmanshyship and engineering in the big V-8 is hard to believe for 1927
Good progress is being made on the restoration of Dennis Lincoln Sport biplane Dennis originally purchased the Lincoln as a dereshylict piled up behind a hangar at Monmouth Illinois from owner John Louck for the large sum of $85 (Yes this is the same Capt John Louck who barnstormed Ford Trimotor N414H) After buying the Lincoln in 1948 Dennis stored the remains until last year when Gar Williams agreed to take on the restoration effort An extensive detailed investigation revealed this aircraft to be Serial No 1 Lincoln Sport the factory prototype The three-cylinder Anzani enshygine was in poor condition so another Anzani was purchased from Clarence Rates (EM 191114) of Necedah Wisconsin This engine is being rebuilf by AI Ball of Santa Paula California Note the balsa wood streamlining on the gear legs and cabane struts
Lincoln Sport instrument panel photo reveals a Jones Tachometer Zenith Height Gauge (altimeter) and a Dixie magneto switch all from the 1920s Note the center-pivoted wooden rudder bar Gar reports many of the original fuselage parts were in excellent shape and needed only to be cleaned up and varnished (after 65 years)
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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Theres More than a Plane in this Picture
SON Look Dadl This low- cowl line lets you see the ground from the pilot seat even after the plane hat landed
FATHII So Ive noticed-and did you lee these big doors on both sides of the Aeronca Chief cabin and the roOm there il inside
MOTHER I like the looksofthi plane itsddinitely amart and the price certainly i reable
DEALER Youre all on the trade but proud to be one of them because to I there more than a plane in this picture one youve got to deliver SlaquoV1ce at Aeronca is one company that hal a pilln Imow your busin Th-e a book1 as well as a romplett line 0( penonal you can get by sending lot to Aeronl
Aircraft Corp Dept ATmiddotI MiddetoJ Ohio Its caned Aeronca the PI Youll Want to Fly and tells all
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planes For a lone time theyve been promoting the idea 0( airstrips everymiddot where eo people can ly their own planet anywhere
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
D I would like 10 SimplimiddotFly Ihe New Culver in a demonlralion
D Pleae end me lileralure on Ihe New Culver V
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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Contents
2 Straight and Levelby Espie Butch Joyce
4 AC Newslby Mark Phelps
5 Letters to the Editor
6 Members Projectslby Norm Petersen Page 5
8 Vintage Seaplaneslby Norm Petersen
10 Vintage Literaturelby Dennis Parks
14 Interesting Memberlby Charlie Harris
16 Build a Flying Toboggan Iby Paul H Keating EM
18 Father amp Son Cessnalby Mark Phelps Page 6
22 Photos by Kostonlby Ted Koston
24 The Ferris Wheellby Jim Damron
26 Notice of Annual Meeting
28 Pass It To Bucklby E E Buck Hilbert
30 Calendar
Page 2231 Vintage Trader
34 Mystery Planelby George Hardie Jr
FRONT COVER Leon Seale Jr and son Scoote( (Leon III) close in on the photo p la ne for a good look (Photo by Jim Koepnick Photo plane flown by Jim Dorman)
REAR COVER Longtime EAAer Ted Businger liked the old magazine covers on the rear covers of recent Issues of II1NTAGE AIRPLANE so he sent along a collection of his favorites one of which is featured here Thanks Ted
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John Lafferty 1914middot1990 It is with deep regret that we report
the passing of John Lafferty (EAA 35501 AIC 8308) of Austin Minshynesota on April 22 1990 Johns life story was chronicled in the February 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Our sympathy is extended to his wife Grace their family many friends and 1990 Taylorcratl
Taylorcraft introduces Ranger Patrol Model
Taylorcraft has introduced its new Ranger Patrol Model designed for law enforcement forestry service pipeline patrol construction survey work wildlife management and other misshysions requiring a rugged STOL airshycraft
The Ranger is available with either a 118-hp or 180-hp engine and a choice of tricycle or conventional landing gear Short term delivery is available within approximately 120 days The Ranger comes standard with clear Plexiglas doors with flip-up windows for photo missions 200-pound cargo capacity with an optional fold-down seat for a rear-seat passenger offers a choice of King or Narco avionics and IIMorrow loran comes with a choice oftailwheels and is certified on floats
Contact Taylorcraft Aircraft Corp (Sales) at 165 Scott Avenue Suite 102
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Morgantown West Virginia 26505 Tel 304291-AERO
New PA-18 struts available Univair Aircraft of Aurora Colshy
orado announces that it now has the new sealed type PA-18 lift struts The struts are FAA-PMA approved and comply with Piper Service Bulletin 910A The struts are manufactured with a bushing welded at the wing atshytach hole and a sealed fork barrel which prevents moisture from entering the strut The inside of the struts is coated with a preservativelsealant in accordance with the Service Bulletin These lift struts also include the larger heavy-duty heat treated 58-inch thread fork The front strut is PIN U89497-02 and sells for $25882 The rear strut is PIN U89498-02 and sells for $18247 Contact U ni vair Aircraft Corp 2500 Himalaya Road Aurora Colorado 80011 Tel 303375-8882
John Lafferty 1914-1990
Autograph hounds Dear Mark
After reading Paul Whitesells letter in April VINTAGE AIRPLANE my first thought was AMEN After re-doing some of the work I paid an IA $38000 for plus parts this really hits home My aircraft is a 1951 Tripacer with 125 hp It is pretty basic The technology is older than the owner The price of a Maule tester will be spent gladly The satisfaction and peace of mind will surely lower tha probability of an ulcer To anyone contemplating doing his own work I highly recommend the type club pertinent to the airplane in my case the Short Wing Piper Club is a wealth of information
Sincerely Robert Farnsworth Pengilly Minnesota
Mr Phelps Id like to take issue with Paul
Whitesells comments about AampPs Maybe his two brothers-in-law are inshycompetent with light aircraft Put the shoe on the other foot As an AampP whos been asked to sign off owners work Ive seen ennumerable examples of incompetence by folks citing the same anti-autograph rhetoric For example
- Only two threads engaged in nuts securing structure (improper grip length to say the least) - Notches cut in structural stringers for clearances - Auto valves in engines (bent after 200 hours) - Propeller cut two inches shorter than data sheet allowance - Number 10 screws in rudder cable end fittings instead of 14-inch bolts - No primary stops on ailerons - Not to mention the piles of illegal paperwork (or lack of it) Ive come across
Maybe there are a few AampPs who are out to make a quick buck off their licenses but to conversely say that every owner is capable and has the right to sign off his work is not the answer There are good and bad plumshybers electricians and movie actors shyyoure free to spend your money where you choose
A good AampP and a conscientious owner go hand in hand Two pairs of eyes and ears is always better While the AampP may know less than Paul about his particular Bonanza he should know considerably more than the average owner about whats airshyworthy and legal The two should be working together to keep these old
birds flying
Walt Hankinson (EAA 275854 AC 11908) AampP 148363063 Shiloh New Jersey
Mystery cowl Dear Editor
Enclosed are two photos of a cowl I would like to identify It is a NACA type measuring 32 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep and is apparently for a three-cylinder radial Any help you can give me would be appreciated
Sincerely Richard Danio 12 Clinton Avenue Wallingford Connecticut 06492 Tel 203269-1941
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MEMBERS~ PROJECTS by Norm Petersen
A smiling Dennis Trone (EM 584 AlC 9214) stands by his latest restoration project a 1927 Waco DSO NC605N SIN 3006 which he recently acquired from the Peter Bryn estate in Dazey North Dakota One of only seven Hissoshypowered DSO models still on the FAA register this particushylar airplane is featured on page 116 of Juptners Volume I - when it had been restored in the early 1950s by the same Dennis Trone in California This time the restoration will be under the direction of Gar Williams of Naperville Illinois and Dennis is looking forward to flying his old friend from 40 years ago Upon disassembly of the big Hisso engine Gar remarked that the quality of workmanshyship and engineering in the big V-8 is hard to believe for 1927
Good progress is being made on the restoration of Dennis Lincoln Sport biplane Dennis originally purchased the Lincoln as a dereshylict piled up behind a hangar at Monmouth Illinois from owner John Louck for the large sum of $85 (Yes this is the same Capt John Louck who barnstormed Ford Trimotor N414H) After buying the Lincoln in 1948 Dennis stored the remains until last year when Gar Williams agreed to take on the restoration effort An extensive detailed investigation revealed this aircraft to be Serial No 1 Lincoln Sport the factory prototype The three-cylinder Anzani enshygine was in poor condition so another Anzani was purchased from Clarence Rates (EM 191114) of Necedah Wisconsin This engine is being rebuilf by AI Ball of Santa Paula California Note the balsa wood streamlining on the gear legs and cabane struts
Lincoln Sport instrument panel photo reveals a Jones Tachometer Zenith Height Gauge (altimeter) and a Dixie magneto switch all from the 1920s Note the center-pivoted wooden rudder bar Gar reports many of the original fuselage parts were in excellent shape and needed only to be cleaned up and varnished (after 65 years)
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
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VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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SON Look Dadl This low- cowl line lets you see the ground from the pilot seat even after the plane hat landed
FATHII So Ive noticed-and did you lee these big doors on both sides of the Aeronca Chief cabin and the roOm there il inside
MOTHER I like the looksofthi plane itsddinitely amart and the price certainly i reable
DEALER Youre all on the trade but proud to be one of them because to I there more than a plane in this picture one youve got to deliver SlaquoV1ce at Aeronca is one company that hal a pilln Imow your busin Th-e a book1 as well as a romplett line 0( penonal you can get by sending lot to Aeronl
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
D I would like 10 SimplimiddotFly Ihe New Culver in a demonlralion
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
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INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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John Lafferty 1914middot1990 It is with deep regret that we report
the passing of John Lafferty (EAA 35501 AIC 8308) of Austin Minshynesota on April 22 1990 Johns life story was chronicled in the February 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Our sympathy is extended to his wife Grace their family many friends and 1990 Taylorcratl
Taylorcraft introduces Ranger Patrol Model
Taylorcraft has introduced its new Ranger Patrol Model designed for law enforcement forestry service pipeline patrol construction survey work wildlife management and other misshysions requiring a rugged STOL airshycraft
The Ranger is available with either a 118-hp or 180-hp engine and a choice of tricycle or conventional landing gear Short term delivery is available within approximately 120 days The Ranger comes standard with clear Plexiglas doors with flip-up windows for photo missions 200-pound cargo capacity with an optional fold-down seat for a rear-seat passenger offers a choice of King or Narco avionics and IIMorrow loran comes with a choice oftailwheels and is certified on floats
Contact Taylorcraft Aircraft Corp (Sales) at 165 Scott Avenue Suite 102
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New PA-18 struts available Univair Aircraft of Aurora Colshy
orado announces that it now has the new sealed type PA-18 lift struts The struts are FAA-PMA approved and comply with Piper Service Bulletin 910A The struts are manufactured with a bushing welded at the wing atshytach hole and a sealed fork barrel which prevents moisture from entering the strut The inside of the struts is coated with a preservativelsealant in accordance with the Service Bulletin These lift struts also include the larger heavy-duty heat treated 58-inch thread fork The front strut is PIN U89497-02 and sells for $25882 The rear strut is PIN U89498-02 and sells for $18247 Contact U ni vair Aircraft Corp 2500 Himalaya Road Aurora Colorado 80011 Tel 303375-8882
John Lafferty 1914-1990
Autograph hounds Dear Mark
After reading Paul Whitesells letter in April VINTAGE AIRPLANE my first thought was AMEN After re-doing some of the work I paid an IA $38000 for plus parts this really hits home My aircraft is a 1951 Tripacer with 125 hp It is pretty basic The technology is older than the owner The price of a Maule tester will be spent gladly The satisfaction and peace of mind will surely lower tha probability of an ulcer To anyone contemplating doing his own work I highly recommend the type club pertinent to the airplane in my case the Short Wing Piper Club is a wealth of information
Sincerely Robert Farnsworth Pengilly Minnesota
Mr Phelps Id like to take issue with Paul
Whitesells comments about AampPs Maybe his two brothers-in-law are inshycompetent with light aircraft Put the shoe on the other foot As an AampP whos been asked to sign off owners work Ive seen ennumerable examples of incompetence by folks citing the same anti-autograph rhetoric For example
- Only two threads engaged in nuts securing structure (improper grip length to say the least) - Notches cut in structural stringers for clearances - Auto valves in engines (bent after 200 hours) - Propeller cut two inches shorter than data sheet allowance - Number 10 screws in rudder cable end fittings instead of 14-inch bolts - No primary stops on ailerons - Not to mention the piles of illegal paperwork (or lack of it) Ive come across
Maybe there are a few AampPs who are out to make a quick buck off their licenses but to conversely say that every owner is capable and has the right to sign off his work is not the answer There are good and bad plumshybers electricians and movie actors shyyoure free to spend your money where you choose
A good AampP and a conscientious owner go hand in hand Two pairs of eyes and ears is always better While the AampP may know less than Paul about his particular Bonanza he should know considerably more than the average owner about whats airshyworthy and legal The two should be working together to keep these old
birds flying
Walt Hankinson (EAA 275854 AC 11908) AampP 148363063 Shiloh New Jersey
Mystery cowl Dear Editor
Enclosed are two photos of a cowl I would like to identify It is a NACA type measuring 32 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep and is apparently for a three-cylinder radial Any help you can give me would be appreciated
Sincerely Richard Danio 12 Clinton Avenue Wallingford Connecticut 06492 Tel 203269-1941
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MEMBERS~ PROJECTS by Norm Petersen
A smiling Dennis Trone (EM 584 AlC 9214) stands by his latest restoration project a 1927 Waco DSO NC605N SIN 3006 which he recently acquired from the Peter Bryn estate in Dazey North Dakota One of only seven Hissoshypowered DSO models still on the FAA register this particushylar airplane is featured on page 116 of Juptners Volume I - when it had been restored in the early 1950s by the same Dennis Trone in California This time the restoration will be under the direction of Gar Williams of Naperville Illinois and Dennis is looking forward to flying his old friend from 40 years ago Upon disassembly of the big Hisso engine Gar remarked that the quality of workmanshyship and engineering in the big V-8 is hard to believe for 1927
Good progress is being made on the restoration of Dennis Lincoln Sport biplane Dennis originally purchased the Lincoln as a dereshylict piled up behind a hangar at Monmouth Illinois from owner John Louck for the large sum of $85 (Yes this is the same Capt John Louck who barnstormed Ford Trimotor N414H) After buying the Lincoln in 1948 Dennis stored the remains until last year when Gar Williams agreed to take on the restoration effort An extensive detailed investigation revealed this aircraft to be Serial No 1 Lincoln Sport the factory prototype The three-cylinder Anzani enshygine was in poor condition so another Anzani was purchased from Clarence Rates (EM 191114) of Necedah Wisconsin This engine is being rebuilf by AI Ball of Santa Paula California Note the balsa wood streamlining on the gear legs and cabane struts
Lincoln Sport instrument panel photo reveals a Jones Tachometer Zenith Height Gauge (altimeter) and a Dixie magneto switch all from the 1920s Note the center-pivoted wooden rudder bar Gar reports many of the original fuselage parts were in excellent shape and needed only to be cleaned up and varnished (after 65 years)
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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SON Look Dadl This low- cowl line lets you see the ground from the pilot seat even after the plane hat landed
FATHII So Ive noticed-and did you lee these big doors on both sides of the Aeronca Chief cabin and the roOm there il inside
MOTHER I like the looksofthi plane itsddinitely amart and the price certainly i reable
DEALER Youre all on the trade but proud to be one of them because to I there more than a plane in this picture one youve got to deliver SlaquoV1ce at Aeronca is one company that hal a pilln Imow your busin Th-e a book1 as well as a romplett line 0( penonal you can get by sending lot to Aeronl
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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After reading Paul Whitesells letter in April VINTAGE AIRPLANE my first thought was AMEN After re-doing some of the work I paid an IA $38000 for plus parts this really hits home My aircraft is a 1951 Tripacer with 125 hp It is pretty basic The technology is older than the owner The price of a Maule tester will be spent gladly The satisfaction and peace of mind will surely lower tha probability of an ulcer To anyone contemplating doing his own work I highly recommend the type club pertinent to the airplane in my case the Short Wing Piper Club is a wealth of information
Sincerely Robert Farnsworth Pengilly Minnesota
Mr Phelps Id like to take issue with Paul
Whitesells comments about AampPs Maybe his two brothers-in-law are inshycompetent with light aircraft Put the shoe on the other foot As an AampP whos been asked to sign off owners work Ive seen ennumerable examples of incompetence by folks citing the same anti-autograph rhetoric For example
- Only two threads engaged in nuts securing structure (improper grip length to say the least) - Notches cut in structural stringers for clearances - Auto valves in engines (bent after 200 hours) - Propeller cut two inches shorter than data sheet allowance - Number 10 screws in rudder cable end fittings instead of 14-inch bolts - No primary stops on ailerons - Not to mention the piles of illegal paperwork (or lack of it) Ive come across
Maybe there are a few AampPs who are out to make a quick buck off their licenses but to conversely say that every owner is capable and has the right to sign off his work is not the answer There are good and bad plumshybers electricians and movie actors shyyoure free to spend your money where you choose
A good AampP and a conscientious owner go hand in hand Two pairs of eyes and ears is always better While the AampP may know less than Paul about his particular Bonanza he should know considerably more than the average owner about whats airshyworthy and legal The two should be working together to keep these old
birds flying
Walt Hankinson (EAA 275854 AC 11908) AampP 148363063 Shiloh New Jersey
Mystery cowl Dear Editor
Enclosed are two photos of a cowl I would like to identify It is a NACA type measuring 32 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep and is apparently for a three-cylinder radial Any help you can give me would be appreciated
Sincerely Richard Danio 12 Clinton Avenue Wallingford Connecticut 06492 Tel 203269-1941
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MEMBERS~ PROJECTS by Norm Petersen
A smiling Dennis Trone (EM 584 AlC 9214) stands by his latest restoration project a 1927 Waco DSO NC605N SIN 3006 which he recently acquired from the Peter Bryn estate in Dazey North Dakota One of only seven Hissoshypowered DSO models still on the FAA register this particushylar airplane is featured on page 116 of Juptners Volume I - when it had been restored in the early 1950s by the same Dennis Trone in California This time the restoration will be under the direction of Gar Williams of Naperville Illinois and Dennis is looking forward to flying his old friend from 40 years ago Upon disassembly of the big Hisso engine Gar remarked that the quality of workmanshyship and engineering in the big V-8 is hard to believe for 1927
Good progress is being made on the restoration of Dennis Lincoln Sport biplane Dennis originally purchased the Lincoln as a dereshylict piled up behind a hangar at Monmouth Illinois from owner John Louck for the large sum of $85 (Yes this is the same Capt John Louck who barnstormed Ford Trimotor N414H) After buying the Lincoln in 1948 Dennis stored the remains until last year when Gar Williams agreed to take on the restoration effort An extensive detailed investigation revealed this aircraft to be Serial No 1 Lincoln Sport the factory prototype The three-cylinder Anzani enshygine was in poor condition so another Anzani was purchased from Clarence Rates (EM 191114) of Necedah Wisconsin This engine is being rebuilf by AI Ball of Santa Paula California Note the balsa wood streamlining on the gear legs and cabane struts
Lincoln Sport instrument panel photo reveals a Jones Tachometer Zenith Height Gauge (altimeter) and a Dixie magneto switch all from the 1920s Note the center-pivoted wooden rudder bar Gar reports many of the original fuselage parts were in excellent shape and needed only to be cleaned up and varnished (after 65 years)
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
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VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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SON Look Dadl This low- cowl line lets you see the ground from the pilot seat even after the plane hat landed
FATHII So Ive noticed-and did you lee these big doors on both sides of the Aeronca Chief cabin and the roOm there il inside
MOTHER I like the looksofthi plane itsddinitely amart and the price certainly i reable
DEALER Youre all on the trade but proud to be one of them because to I there more than a plane in this picture one youve got to deliver SlaquoV1ce at Aeronca is one company that hal a pilln Imow your busin Th-e a book1 as well as a romplett line 0( penonal you can get by sending lot to Aeronl
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
D I would like 10 SimplimiddotFly Ihe New Culver in a demonlralion
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
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From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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it would take a rather high rate of insurance
Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
We Make a Winged Toboggan
new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
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EAA OSHKOSH 89
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22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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A smiling Dennis Trone (EM 584 AlC 9214) stands by his latest restoration project a 1927 Waco DSO NC605N SIN 3006 which he recently acquired from the Peter Bryn estate in Dazey North Dakota One of only seven Hissoshypowered DSO models still on the FAA register this particushylar airplane is featured on page 116 of Juptners Volume I - when it had been restored in the early 1950s by the same Dennis Trone in California This time the restoration will be under the direction of Gar Williams of Naperville Illinois and Dennis is looking forward to flying his old friend from 40 years ago Upon disassembly of the big Hisso engine Gar remarked that the quality of workmanshyship and engineering in the big V-8 is hard to believe for 1927
Good progress is being made on the restoration of Dennis Lincoln Sport biplane Dennis originally purchased the Lincoln as a dereshylict piled up behind a hangar at Monmouth Illinois from owner John Louck for the large sum of $85 (Yes this is the same Capt John Louck who barnstormed Ford Trimotor N414H) After buying the Lincoln in 1948 Dennis stored the remains until last year when Gar Williams agreed to take on the restoration effort An extensive detailed investigation revealed this aircraft to be Serial No 1 Lincoln Sport the factory prototype The three-cylinder Anzani enshygine was in poor condition so another Anzani was purchased from Clarence Rates (EM 191114) of Necedah Wisconsin This engine is being rebuilf by AI Ball of Santa Paula California Note the balsa wood streamlining on the gear legs and cabane struts
Lincoln Sport instrument panel photo reveals a Jones Tachometer Zenith Height Gauge (altimeter) and a Dixie magneto switch all from the 1920s Note the center-pivoted wooden rudder bar Gar reports many of the original fuselage parts were in excellent shape and needed only to be cleaned up and varnished (after 65 years)
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
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VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
8 JUNE 1990
With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
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sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
D I would like 10 SimplimiddotFly Ihe New Culver in a demonlralion
D Pleae end me lileralure on Ihe New Culver V
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
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INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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it would take a rather high rate of insurance
Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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Not content to rest on his laurels (see April 90 VINTAGE AIRPLANE page 28 story of Old Blue) Mike McCann sent in the enclosed photo of his 450 P 8lt W Stearman which is rapidly approaching flight status Painted dark green and white the big biplane feashytures custom wheel pants polished aluminum struts and a conshytrollable prop to harness the 450 horsepower Perhaps Mike will send us a photo of the Stearman in the air over the colorful counshytry around Homer Alaska
Warren Williams of Littleton Colorado sent in these photos of his nicely restored 1948 Aeronca Sedan N1138H SIN 15AC-149 (Thats Warren standing by the door) He found the Sedan on a farm in Ohio in November 1981 It had not been annualed for 10 years and was full of rodent and bird residue The restoration was started in May 1982 and completed in June 1983 just in time to go to the first Aeronca National Convention in Middletown Ohio The total time on the aircraft was 1253 hours at rebuild and is now 1710 hours Warren admits the big comfortable cabin is like a pickup with wings Just dont get in a hurry he says Cruising speed is 105 mph and it gets out of his 5680 foot strip just fine
Instrument panel in Warren Williams Aeronca Sedan has been redone with many new gauges and a center stack radio packshyage with Loran Note the custom-built wooden control wheels that slip over the original wire-spoked ones and are fastened with flush wood screws Should be nice and warm to the touch
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen
This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
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22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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This 1947 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser with Canadian registration C-FFIR is owned by Ken Striker (EM 350640) of Mississgua Ontario Canada Mounted on an immaculate set of Edo 89-2000 floats the PA-12 features a 150 Lycoming engine swinging a Borer seaplane prop split seaplane doors on both sides of the fuselage large overhead skylight Canadian style aux seaplane fins on both stabilizers PA-18 balanced tail feathers and a full panel with Arnav 21 Loran and the works Other amenities include PA-18 wing flaps dual water rudders on the floats and quick pump-outs in each float compartment Ken uses the PA-12 to fly to his retreat on an island in Lake Huron on the eastem shore of Georgian Bay He plans on his first visit to the Brennand Seaplane Base at Oshkosh this summer to attend the EM Convention
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With its silver floats nestled against the dock the white with red and black trimmed PA-12 makes a pretty sight in the bright sun at Ken Strikers summer home on Lake Huron Very few seaplane pilots could resist a chance to take this beauty for a trip around the lake on a day like this Note original Grimes wingtip and rudder navigation lights
Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
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From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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Nestied against the dock in Fort Frances Ontario Canada is this Stinson SR-9 mounted on Edo WA-4665 floats used for hauling fishermen by Rusty Myers Flying Service Registered CF-HJY the Gullwing had been converted to a P amp W 985 and used the typical Rusty Myers colors of all red with yellow trim Most Stinson Reliants used a ventral fin when mounted on floats however this one does not have the additional fin The photo was taken by Norm Petersen in the summer of 1956 at Rusty Myers base at Fort Frances
Snubbed against the dock on Oak Island Lake of the Woods Minnesota is Beechcraft C18-S N44573 SIN 7678 mounted on Edo 56-7850 floats Owned and flown by Garland Bemhardt of Baudette MN on Canadian fishing charter trips in 1976 and 77 the Beech featured a 10 seat interior a range of 800 miles on its 253 gal tanks and a cruise of 150 mph Built in 1944 with float fittings installed the C18-S was powered by twin 450 P amp W enshygines and is presently one of 59 C18-S models still on the register Extras included a pilot hatch over the cockpit and a cargo hatch that allowed two 17-foot canoes to be loaded intemally Note the three-foot wing extensions that helped on takeoff Photo taken in 1977 by Norm Petersen
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THE LlGHTPLANE AND THE AVIATION PRESS - 1946
The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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FATHII So Ive noticed-and did you lee these big doors on both sides of the Aeronca Chief cabin and the roOm there il inside
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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AND THE WINNER IS To determine which of the new
lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
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Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
We Make a Winged Toboggan
new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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The end of World War II was a time of high hopes and the prediction of a boom in the civil aviation industry For a time this was reflected in civil aircraft production which went from 1900 units in 1945 to more than 33000 in 1946 A large part of this production was in lightplanes built to fulfill the expected demand by returning military pilots
There was indeed a wellspring of new models for the private pilot The Fall of 1945 saw the certification of the first of the new post-war lightshyplanes with the type approval of the Aeronca 7 AC Champion By the end of 1946 18 more lightplanes would be certified These included the Aeronca Chief Globe Swift Stinson Voyager Cessna 120 and the Ercoupe
NATIONAL AIRCRAFT SHOW This booming market was reflected
in the coverage of the First National Aircraft Show by SKYWAYS magashyzine which produced a special isshysue in December 1946 This issue had almost 200 pages 100 of which were devoted to the show The lightplane section had pictures and specificashytions on more than 40 new aircraft There were also 15 lightplane manshyufacturers with full-page advertiseshyments in the issue Both Aeronca and Taylorcraft had two-page ads The others were All American Beech Bellanca Cessna Culver Funk Globe Hockaday Johnson Lusshycombe North American Piper and Waco
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THE RECEPTION Of all these new light aircraft which
ones had the best reception Which ones were written about the most in the popular aviation magazines which got the best press We will examine the coverage from four of the aviation publications in 1946 and see which airshycraft garnered the most coverage The publications are AIR FACTS AIR TRAILS FLYING and SKYWAYS
AIR TRAILS AIR TRAILS was a large-format
magazine that was a combination of a modeling magazine and a general avishyation magazine It was unique in its two-page color center photographs of airplanes most of which were done by the famous aviation photographer Rudy Arnold During 1946 five of these center section photos were of lightplanes These were the Commonshywealth Trimmer Fairchild 24 Piper Super Cruiser North American Navshyion Taylorcraft BC and the Funk Model B
Lightplanes also appeared on the covers of five issues These were the Stinson Voyager Piper Cub (twice one on floats) Aeronca Champion and Taylorcraft Be
Starting in January 1946 AIR TRAILS began its series of Pilot Reshyports done by William Winter and Alexis Dawydoff Five appeared in 1946 These reports were about the Stinson Voyager Globe Swift Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe and the Aeronca Champion
The planes all received positive comments
Offers all the comforts and pleashy
sures in flying found heretofore in larger and more expensive planes shyVoyager
Brilliant performance good looks and economy are obtained at low price - Swift
A post-war trainer that will earn its designers plenty of pats on the back - Champion
AIR FACTS This compact size magazine created
and edited by Leighton Collins specialshyized in safety and pilot reports for the private pilot Thus it is no surprise that in 1946 there was a lightplane on every cover These cover photos were done by the well-known aviation photoshygrapher Hans Groenhoff On the covshyers were the Bellanca Cruisair Comshymonwealth Skyranger Erco Ercoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Erco Ercoupe (on floats) Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Luscombe Silvaire Reshypublic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the Navion
AIR FACTS was known for its incishysive pilot reports done by Collins The magazine was also the first to print a post-war pilot report with its review of the Stinson Voyager in the November 1945 issue During 1946 he did reports on eight planes These were the Ershycoupe Cessna 140 Piper Super Cruiser Bellanca Cruisair Sr Culver V Republic Seabee Beech Bonanza and the North American Navion
Some of his remarks With a good cruising speed and range ailerons that always work and a gear that paints on landings the Ercoupe should get a lot of new people in the air Spring steel landing gear flaps good flying qualshyities and a healthy cruise all make the 140 fun to fly and a lot of airplane for $299500 - Cessna 140
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
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From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
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Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
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THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
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June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
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July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
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July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
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August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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AIR TRAILS January lY46
FLYING FL YING magazine was an avid supshy
porter of private flying and had articles on Iightplanes and post-war private flyshying starting with the January 1945 issue During 1946 it printed more than a dozen articles on the subject On 11 of the 1946 covers there was a lightshyplane These were the Erco Ercoupe Trimmer Amphibian Aeronca Chamshypion Culver Model V North Amershyican Navion Miles Gemini Cessna 140 Grumman Widgeon Taylorcraft BC Luscombe Seaplane and the Stinshyson Voyager The other cover was a Noordyun Norseman on floats
During the year FLYING had six pilot reports of the new Iightplanes These were the Stinson Voyager Cessna 140 Globe Swift Erco Ershycoupe Culver V and the Aeronca Chief These reports were done by Max Karant Managing Editor of the magazine Among Karants reports The Voyager is one of the best tailshydown airplanes we have handled on the ground It has better than average visshyibility forward the tail wheel is steershyable The Culver V is an excellent addition to the post-war private-plane market But it will attract more than the usual amount of sneers for no other reason than the fact that it is a step forward
SKYWAYS SKYW A YS was unusual compared
to the other magazines discussed in that it used artwork instead of photographs for its covers These stylish color renshyderings were done by Ren Wicks Cecil West and Jo Kotula Eleven of the 1946 covers had lightplanes deshypicted These were the Piper Cub (on Skis) Beech Staggerwing Grumman Widgeon Fairchild F-24 North Amershyican Navion Johnson Skyrocket Culver V Bellanca Cruisair Beech Bonanza Cessna 140 and the Piper Sky Sedan
Of the magazines discussed SKYshyWAYS had the largest number of pilot reports for the year Selby Calkins and
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
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When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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Roger Delvin who did the reports had a very busy year in flying and reporting on 13 new planes These were the Trimmer Amphibian Stinson Voyager ISO Republic Seabee Piper Cub Super Cruiser Globe Swift Taylorshycraft Twosome Aeronca Champion Callair A-2 All American Ensign
Funk F2B Beech Bonanza Piper Sky Sedan and the Johnson Rocket
The remarks included From spinshyner to tail wheel the Funk airplane is a clean honest well-mannered ship It will grow upon its owners like a good hunting dog or a smooth gaited horse
The vee-tail works it has been
adopted for the Beech and it does what it is supposed to do Other planes will have it Lets make no more fuss about it here -- Bonanza
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lightplanes received the most exposure in the four magazines studied the total number of covers and pilot reports are counted for each aircraft model Readshyers of the four magazines in 1946 would have been exposed to 34 lightshyplanes from 26 manufacturers either on the covers or in pilot reports Piper had the most coverage as a manufacturer with nine articles or covers for the Cub and Super Cruiser
For individual models the most reshyported was the Ercoupe which apshypeared on three covers and had three pilot reports Both the Stinson Voyager and the Cessna 140 were next they each appeared on a combined total of five covers and pilot reports
No airplane model appeared on the cover of all four of the magazines in 1946 but four of the planes appeared on the covers of at least three different publications These were the Culver V Navion Cessna 140 and the Piper Cub Other planes with good exposure were the Beech Bonanza and the Globe Swift -- each of these appearing on a combination of four covers andor pilot reports
BEYOND 1946 Indeed 1946 was a high-water mark
in the return of the private plane and personal flying but the market went sour In 1947 sales fell off to 15 617 units and dropped to 3545 by 1949 But it was an exciting time of creative growth shown by the American lightshyplane manufacturer
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13
INTERESTING MEMBERS
Francis Franny Rourke (EAA 2059 AlC 5274) A Craftsmans Craftsman
by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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SIDE VIEW A wire braced framemiddot work of 1 by 21 in trip I covered with paraffined muslin to (orm wing for the tobollan
across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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new kick in each descent or flight as you please
Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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by Charles W Harris Director AntiqueClassic Division EAA 96978 AlC 2158
When a man has spent a lifetime in grass roots aviation it must be gratifyshying to look back recount the years and mentally tick off the changes he has seen occur It must be more gratifying to know that when he does elect to lay down the tools of the trade he leaves a legacy of champion level restorations and reputation of craftsmanship of such quality that he is known nationshyally for his skills
Franny Rouke (EAA 1059 - a charshyter member of EAA Chapter LO Tulsa and EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 10 Tulsa) of Bartlesville Oklahoma is a man of such reputation and talent Franny was 75 years young in April 1990 going strong and is presently restoring a Luscombe 8F a Bird bishyplane an American Eagle biplane and a Hisso Travel Air 3000 He has just completed an outstanding 1930 Fleet open biplane and has no plans to slow down
A displaced New Englander Franny has lived in Bartlesville for nearly 50 14 JUNE 1990
years His first view of any airplane was on Armistice Day November I I 1919 at the age of four as the planes overflew the downtown parade in Beacon Falls Massachusetts A forced landing of a DH4 near his home had him there as fast as his little legs would carry him the aviation bug was biting He attended grade school in Beacon Falls and high-school in Naugatuck High-school brought French class and French class brought hooking from school to walk to the airport and evenshytually talking the airport operator at Bethany Massachusetts into an apshyprenticeship This was 1932 a job was rare Franny had an apprenticeship job however there was no pay to go with the job There was however the thrill of the airplanes and the learning of the aviation trades Eventually Franny and his young aviation buddy Johnny Korzen became teenage manashygers of the Bethany Massachusetts airshyport Their experience grew they worked on a Ryan B-1 a J-5 Lockheed Vega an Ireland amphibian Birds Great Lakes Curtiss Robin a Hisso Eaglerock etc Little or no money changed hands on repairs A dentist had his Gee Bee Model A completely rebuilt in exchange for a set of tires for Frannys old car and $100 in cash And oh yes the dentist offered to pull all of Frannys back teeth The 1930s were trying years for a young mechanic trying to make a living in aviation
Meanwhile Franny s first employer the former airport manager had found his way to Cheyenne Wyoming and had a job with United Air Lines and in 1936 called Franny and offered him a mechanic s slot Franny accepted and went west to the high country to give it a try It wasn t long before Franny was back in New England and eventushyally landed a job with Sikorsky in Bridgeport Connecticut working on the legendary S42s and S43s Franny s reputation as a quality and meticulous worker was growing and in 1940 he was lured to the South and the spraying and dusting business by another disshyplaced New Englander This was folshylowed by a stint in Houston which brought an offer from Phillips Petshyroleum Company in Bartlesville Okshylahoma Franny accepted and moved the family to Bartlesville where they have resided the last 48 years
Frannys career with Phillips inshycluded 10 years of not only mechanic duties but flying co-pilot on Lockshyheeds 12s and 18s DC-3s and Dougshylas A-26s In the meantime Franny had been doing some dusting and spraying and also had been assisting a Phillips chemist in researching and deshysigning a carrier for a herbicide that Dow Chemical had perfected After a close call in the A-26 he vowed if he were going to die in an airplane it was not going to be at someone elses hand He quit Phillips and went into the dustshying and spraying business and in doing so flew the first successful liquid hershybicide spraying ever done In the next 10 years dusting and spraying ocshycupied most of Frannys time but his reputation as a splendid craftsman conshytinued to grow and grow More and more pilots were bringing their airplanes to Franny for repair upgradshying and annuals Franny s many years of training and experience were now serving many people very well More and more Franny was being asked to create restorations of the finest quality As he responded to these requests his reputation grew
A simply beautiful upgrading of a 528 hour total-time J-3C 65 was folshylowed by a gorgeous Kinner INF Waco rebuild As these two winners emerged from Frannys shop in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug Rounds asked
The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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The sheer size of the Travelair 6000 made Frannys restoration of the machine one big job It took some 212 years
Franny to take on the task of completshying the redo of his BIG Travel Air 6000 Franny accepted and they loaded the dismantled 1931 model monster onto two trucks and two trailers in censhytral Georgia and trucked it the 900 miles to Bartlesville For the next three years Franny waved his mechanical magic on the big bird (with a lot of help from Doug and a lot of friends) and when it was finally done it was promptly test flown tweaked and early the next morning in August 1983 was off to Blakesburg Iowa where it proshyceeded to steal the show its first time out The machine was returned to BVO for a new cowl and post fly-in checkshyout Forty-five days later in September 1983 Doug returned to Bartlesvi lle loaded up the black and orange machine with wife Bonnie son Nathan Franny and Clarence Clark of Bartlesville the test pilot who had made the first flight 50 years before Roger Gaughan and flew off to Tahlequah where the black amp orange beauty was named Grand Champion Antique This airplane was now a far cry from the one that the legendary lohnson Flying Service flew out of Missoula Montana for 31 years as they delivered smoke jumpers into the mountain wilds for so long It is the same airplane that appeared in Only Angels Have Wings with Cary Grant lean Arthur Rita Hayworth and Thomas Mitchell The airplane is now owned by Delta Air Lines and appears in many of their current television commercials
A 1929 General Artistocrat was next in line it came out to be Reserve Grand
Champion at Blakesburg in 1985 From December 1984 to February 1986 he moved Charlie Harris 1942 Culver LFA Cadet from an average machine to one so good it was named Best In Class andor Best Okshylahoma Antique in 1987 1988 and 1989 fly-ins Pete Ettingers Model 2 Fleet was finished just in time to be named Best In Class at a 1989 fly-in After this kind of success the obvious question would be what are you going to do for an encore Well in the shop at this time is an original natshyural aluminum Luscombe that is deshystined to appear in 1991 or 1992 as an authentic original 1949 8F Deluxe a big Bird biplane is moving along and an American Eagle biplane is right beshyhind the Bird A rare Hisso Travel Air 3000 has just gotten in line for its facelift All thi s from a gentleman who works alone and has quietly moved into the fourth quarter of a century It really pays to enjoy what you are doing
Franny fell in love with the open bishyplanes during his days of dusting and spraying in Mississippi in 1940-41 The Travel Air 200030004000 series airplane were the mainstays of the preshywar dusting business Franny never forgot hi s Travel air love and in the middle of the 1970s began to craft himshyself a beautiful blue and silver OX5 2000 which looked as new when he finished it as it did the day 50 years before when Walter s people rolled it out and Clarence Clark got in and flew it Franny later sold his machine to Don Sharp of Pauls Valley Oklahoma who took it to Denton where it was
named Grand Champion Antique Fran is held in such high esteem by
his friends and associates that he is considered the dean of aircraft restorshyers in the Oklahoma area His depth of knowledge of the antique and classic aircraft amazes some of the young mechanics - of course its a bit difshyficult for them to remember that Franny was there when virtually all of our treasured old airplanes were introshyduced or were near new
Beyond family airplanes have been Franny s entire life From a teenager actually managing an airport and workshying on airplanes for a living to an honshyored level of respect and esteem at age 75 there have been very few days that Franny has not been at his airport shop making his or someones airplane a better and safer machine
In addition to EAA Franny is a member of AAA QBs OX5 Aviation Pioneers National Biplane Associashytion and Early Birds He is a member and regularly attends meetings of EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter lOin Tulsa In 1985 and 1986 he acted as consulshytant to Phillips Petroleum Company as they restored the legendary 1927 Dole Race winning Travel Air 6000 Woolaroc The hangar which he ocshycupied for so long on Frank Phillips Field at Bartlesville has been acquired by the National Biplane Association and will be used as the National Bishyplane Center
Franny s legacy will live on in the airplanes he has crafted for longer than most of us will be around Where would we be without those few men to whom we owe so much bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY January 1926
JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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JOW Ui lJade a Willged Toboggan
Wjngs fitted to a toboggan add immeamiddot aurable thrills to the sport of coasting
PLAYING and racing with death down a 1000-foot slope of frozen snow and ice may not appeal to
some as a pastime but the palling monotony of life in a Colorado mining camp up on the Continental Divide where the snow is 50 feet deep and the mercury is below zero for months makes life seem very drab Anything with a kick in it is welcome-anything
Two of us Harley Tryon and myself were the charter and sole members of th~ Suicide Club builders and operators of the only amusement device of its kind ever recorded the toboggoplane
Tobogganing is not a slow sport in itself but like other speed sports each descent must be a little faster go a little farther than the preceding or it loses its thrill
A toboggan on a hard frozen crust will develop a speed greater than free fall in a given vertical distance for much the same reason that an ice boat ca n go much faster than the wind that drives it It takes longer for the given vertical disshytance to be covered but at the end the actual speed down the slope is greater The why of this is out of place here but its true
So when I say that we hit the bottom of the hill going more than 200 miles an hour I know the speed is undershyestimated But even this palled after a time Keeping a toboggan upright is much like riding a bicycle or balancing a canoe for at high speeds a very small irregularity on the surface can have disastrous effects Our instruction from Old Man Experience on this point came in sudden and enormous doses But in a short time there wasnt a hill around the camp that could offer a kick We could ride them all to a standstill
ONE night after a somewhat dull toboggan party the idea was sugshy
gested to build a set of wings on the toboggan Maybe it would fly
J suggested it and Tryon said If youll build it Ill ride the thing
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F IROM the extraordinarily
graphic pen of a New York mining engineer comes this acshytual record ojwinged tobogganshying at the Sunnyside Mine near Silverton Colo The altitude of this mining camp is 12500 J eet above sea level and th e winters there are Jrom Septemshyber first to July first Snow usushyally falls even in July and August The author was the chipJ engineer and Harley Tryon the timekeeper qt this mine
By Paul H Keating EM
From the carpenter shop next aftershynoon I obtained some strips of pine some muslin (used for wrapping ventilat shying pipe) and middot some piano wire The toboggan itself was of standard design 18 in wide 9 ft long with a curl in front 9 in high
The wings of the Dragonfly as we later christened the toboggan were made of a framework of knot-free pine strips covered with muslin which was painted with hot paraffin to make the fabric airtight
Two strips 1 by 2 Y2 in and 11 ft long were fastened together by four crossshypieces 1 by 2 Y2 in by 4 ft 3 in Notches or mortises were cut in the longer strips to take the shorter ones as illustrated and a single sixpenny nail was driven into each joint from the outside
The frame was laid on a floor and trued up with a steel square Piano wire about No 22 gage was then strung as indicated and drawn very tightly around each crosspiece and diagonally
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across each section of the wing Shingle nails driven into the strips served to anchor the wires
Each cross length was drawn until all gave approximately the same hum when picked The diagonal wires also were adjusted t o the same pitch by putting a lock washer around the intersection and drawing it by a wire toward the back of the frame until the tone of the wires was about even
ORDINARY unbleached muslin was stretched over the entire frame fastshy
ened every 2 in with carpet tacks The center or cockpit then was cut out and the loose edges tacked down After prying the frame from the floor to which it had been lightly nailed during the truing-up process the muslin was painted with very hot paraffin
Two holes were drilled in th e top of the curl of the t oboggan 1 ft apart and three turns of ordinary baling wire held the wings in place along the leading edge
The rear edge was fast ened similarly to the iron eyebolts al ong the side of th e toboggan A continuous guy of pishyano wire was strung from the front tip of one wing through eyebolts in the floor of the sled to the other wing tip and d-awn tight
The next thing was to try it lith the cushions in pl ace it looked every bit a dragonshyfly but as a passhysenger carryingdeshyvice we concluded (Continued on page 103)
The original DraAonRy after many perilou trips down a Colorado mountain aide
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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Harleyand I dragged it up themountain the next afternoon to our preferred startshying point which was about 500 ft above the camp He had bargained to try it first But I liked Harley Tryon and inasmuch as the idea and workmanship had all been my own my conscience beshycame apprehensive I was afraid to try it first so was he though neither of us would admit it to the other then although we did later
We flipped a rJin and it was still his turn first But suppose the thing actually did fly and had a crash I hated to think of all that work being lost in a first flight crash and I wouldnt get a chance to ride it So we compromised and decided to ride it together the first time down We should have preferred also to comshypromise on the distance of the first tryout but could not because the mountain was so steep that we had to go up to this certain point in order to get a footing to climb aboard
Harley always had ridden behind to do the steering We took the same position although now I was in the cockpit and couldnt roll clear of the thing if it became necessary or desirable
W E CLIMBED on That hill never had looked so high and steep nor
the frozen crust so hard and smooth Are you ready Harley called I
answered and we started The pick-up was immediate and terrific
with the sensation in the stomach of going down in an elevator Faster faster The tears were streaking across my temples from the icy wind I couldnt breathe or at least didnt in the exciteshyment Only one thought remained-hang on
Two-thirds down we struck a small drift and for a hundred feet beyond though it was less than half a second in time there was no sound of the toboggoshyplanes scraping the frozen snow At the speed we were going the actual lift was small but the fact that it actually had lifted us for a 100-ft jump was demonstrated by our tracks
At the bottom of the hill was a lake 1000 ft across frozen and covered by 20 ft of snow or more We coasted across this flat to the far side started up the opposite hill and soon stopped
The next time Tryon went alone He sat well forward in the cockpit and halfshyway down the hill there were unmisshytakable signs that the Dragonfly was going to leave the ground When Harley reached where the bottom should have been he was 10 ft off the ground going like a shot He landed straight and even and finally came to a stop
After that we alternated rides with more or less good natured rivalry for height distance and near-accidel)t risks The sport never became dull It was never even reasonably safe on such steep hills It never failed to offer a
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Fifteen feet off the ground was pershyhaps the maximum attained but conshysidering the speed and the construction of the machine that was plenty
Between 25 and 30 trips were marked up before the crash Confidence and the almost inevitable contempt of danger through familiarity brought the sport to a sudden finish
It was early in April 1925 three months before any signs of spring appear at that altitude when the Dragonfly made its last flight A light gusty wind was blowing Harley went down the first trip and after coming back up the hill warned me to look out for the breeze
I sat as far forward as I could upon starting and the irregular air pressure on the way down made me hesitate but it was too late When nearly to the bottom I slid back but I had waited too long and slid back too far The front of the machine raised to a horizontal posishytion and then kept right on going up
I had some recollectiorur of bending my head back and seeing the snow above me about 20 feet away and then we started for each other the snow and I The next I remember some one was pulling on one of my legs which were the only part of me I could move Everything was crammed with snow-eyes ears nose mouth collar and I couldnt get my breath Harley told me later that the toboggoshyplane had just kept right on rising and when well upside down I had left it and plunged head first through the crust into the snow
Something like that must have happened for my face was like a piece of raw beefshysteak for two weeks I was thankful that the crust had broken at all as it was hard enough to support the heaviest man without giving way
The Dragonfly came down sideway~ and crumpled a wing The next few days we stayed inside and a snowslide came crashing down our favorite speedway which closed toboggoplaning for the season-perhaps forever
While t here Is no question about the danger of making one of the toboggoshyplanes for u se on mountains such as Mr Keating d escribes the addition of wings to a toboggan will add Imshymensely to the sport of coasting on ordinary hills The toboggan skims along the snow much as a hydroshyplane rides on the water and at modshyerate speeds there Is no danger of Its rising far in the air
We are reprinting this in our J une issue in hopes that anyone crazy enough to want to try this will get over it before any snow falls - Ed
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by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
18 JUNE 1990
by Mark Phelps Photos by Jim Koepnick
On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
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EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
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22 JUNE 1990
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THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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On May 21 1956 Leon Seale Jr a young F-94C all-weather interceptor instructor pilot took home a little toy Cessna 120 At the time he was stationed at Moody AFB in Valdosta Georgia It wasnt a very fancy airplane compared to his big Air Force jet but over the years he toured in the two-seater throughout the southeast west to the Grand Canyon and all up and down the eastern seaboard Inshycluded in the logs is an IFR flight to Boston using VHF transceiver and a low frequency radio range receiver One leg of that trip involved an orienshytation procedure from Hartford Conshynecticut to Bridgeport and an instrushyment let-down using a hand-drawn chart - certainly one of the pioneer IFR efforts in a light airplane
Before making the trip Leon had installed a set of gyros a rear window kit and a rear jumpseat At the time his three-year-old son Leon III alias Scooter could stretch out full length in the back of the Cessna and sleep while Mom and Dad flew up front In 1969 Leon Jr retired from tha Air Force and returned home to Moundshyville Alabama a small community in the west-central section of the state The little 120 was practically retired too when the family bought a Cessna 206 to share the hangar and small prishyvate strip by the house The two-seater flew sparingly and when Scooter moved to Lakeland Florida in 1982 his father got an idea Scooter said A couple of years later Dad brought the plane down handed me the logs (there are no keys) and invited me to spend my money on it awhile
History The story of NC76458 actually beshy
gins some 3562 hours before Mr Seale first bought it in 1956 It left the Cessna factory 10 years earlier Serial Number 10891 was flight tested on November 25 1946 and delivered to Robinson Flying Service in Sikeston Missouri as a demonstrator Many airshycraft throughout the late 1940s and
1950s found their way into private hands through the role of dealer demshyonstrator If a customer liked what he saw the airplane could be his on the spot As a dealer Robinson Flying Service was entitled to a 20 percent discount bringing the final price of the Cessna to $221160 This included the optional steerable tailwheel ($15) Dual brakes ($24 50) and cabin heater ($30) As the spartan model of the 1201 140 series NC 76458 was delivered without an electrical system interior appointments or of course flaps The airplane came with a wooden prop and limited instrumentation
It wasnt long before the Cessna began to grow some more accessories In November 1948 an electrical sysshytem and Harvey-Wells transceiver were added In 1951 the Cessna asshysumed the role of trainer and was graced with some structural modificashytions three-inch landing gear extenshysions (which place the wheels three inches forward to combat noseovers) and a McCauley metal prop
It was mid-1954 when the Cessna retired as a trainer and became a pershysonal airplane Sgt Clifford Good based at Moody AFB in Georgia bought it He sold the 120 to Lt Gorshydon Smith in October 1955 and the radar intercept officer installed a Ruleto metal wing kit A few months later Smith sold the airplane to an Fshy94C instructor named you guessed it Leon Seale Jr
When Leon decided to donate the airplane to his son in 1985 he flew it from Moundville to Lakeland At a fuel stop in northern Florida he had a quart of oil added by a lineman and quizzed the man about the filler cap I asked him is he was sure he had put it back on securely and he assured me he had I should have checked myself but the man was a mechanic and didnt want to embarrass him Besides he had sealed up the entire cowling and it would have been a big scene to undo it again I learned my lesson though Now I dont care who I embarrass I check for myself
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
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It should come as no surprise that the cap was not securely fastened after all and about 100 miles north of Lakeshyland Leon watched in horror as he lost his oil pressure all at once He made a precautionary landing on a logging road replenished the sump with three quarts of oil from the baggage comshypartment wiped the oil from the side of the airplane and nervously took off again after running the engine for a while to ensure that there was no imshymediate damage
Restoration In early 1988 Scooter decided that
the little Cessna deserved a facelift After all more than 4000 hours on the tach represents a lot of trips around the patch He started with a general cleaning decorroding and chromating of inspection panels and various inshyterior and exterior parts He replaced the brake linings and all the tail wheel hardware including springs and chains Next came the windows windshield and skylights as well as as-
Scooter used to sleep on the rear bench seat of the Cessna 120
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
and revenues permit With 4257 hours total time
Cessna N76458 has averaged 120 hours per year over its 34 years Leon Seale Jr was the airplanes fifth owner and third individual owner Its been in the Seale family since Scooter could curl up and sleep on the tiny jumpseat - and from the looks on the faces of these two pilots its going to remain in the stable for many years to come bull
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
EAA OSHKOSH 89
Photos by
TED KOSTON
22 JUNE 1990
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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ssna sorted nuts bolts grommets and moldshying All external screws were replaced along with yards of channel rubber The instrument panel door posts and other interior areas were refinished By June 1988 the 120 was ready for its new coat of Alumigrip base paint applied expertly by Hawk Aviation on Vandenberg Airport near Tampa Florida The blue and gold trim was done in Dupont Imron Texas Aeropshylastics in Roanoak Texas supplied the molded interior panels headliner and
dressings in kit form Installing the inshyterior kit and assorted other tasks conshysumed the next few months and a conshysiderable dose of patience Last to be installed were the new carpet and seats upholstered to match the aircraft trim color
Scooter currently uses a panel-slung Icom IC-A20 handheld radio with an intercom and two headsets He reports that the radio works fine with an extershynal antenna attached Future plans inshyclude a panel update as soon as time
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
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Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
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June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
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EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
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August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
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September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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THE FERRIS WHEEL
by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
HE REPLIED ENUF TO BUY ME A
MERCEDES
A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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by Jim Damron (EAA 274119 Ale 12289)
In March of 1971 myoid man retired off the DC-8 after 28 years with Delta Airlines I was a fairly new second ofshyficer with United Airlines the followshying summer and we had just spent the day at the Antique Airplane Associashytions annual fly-in in Ottumwa Iowa With my uncle and another retired Delta Airlines pilot we were driving from the airport back to the Hotel Otshytumwa when we came to a small carnishyval It was a typical midwestern 40shymiler set up in a hayfield just outside of town There were colored lights music cotton candy laughter an ocshycasional scream and of course there was a Ferris wheel
Dad said Stop the car I want to ride on the Ferris wheel
The other retired pilot was driving and he didnt argue Dads brother Ed a country doctor and a pilot also sure didnt He and I had both known the sometimes-cantankerous old man much too long for that Getting along with Dad had always been one of my chores and I had gotten quite good at it He claimed he had enough trouble just getting through lifes other chalshylenges without having to get along with me to boot
The old man and I made our way through the crowd to the Ferris wheel I didnt ask why I knew hed tell me when he got ready for he was a great story teller and I could feel one coming on
The shadows were growing long as we stood waiting in line for our tickets It was cooling off and the air was pershyfectly still in that best time just before sunset when even a marginal student pilot can solo Neither of us spoke Soon we were high above the carnival quietly rocking back and forth in the cool still air Somwhere a motorcycle accelerated in the distance Otherwise it was quiet save for the muted sounds of the carnival Only then did he begin 24 JUNE 1990
to speak in that magically gentle way he occasionally used when he talked about the olden days Thats what I used to call them when I was a small boy
He said that back when he was a young barnstormer following the carshynivals from one show to the next and hauling passengers he became a regushylar carnival trooper one of the carshynies well-known and accepted by the others He often acted as aerial adshyvance man showering the next town down the road with handbills from his airplane and otherwise drumming up business with an occasional wing walking act or a couple of barnstormer loops
On a typical hot summer day with the temperature hovering in the 90s hed regularly load two passengers in the front cockpit of his trusty OX-5 powered Waco 10 and haul them around the carnival in a wide low cirshycuit for a dollar a head It passed for a living
On a very hot day this seemingly simple flight could become no insigshynificant aeronautical accomplishment At those temperatures and with two big farm boys waving from the front cockpit the OX-5s water temperature would hover near boiling as they clatshytered down the bumpy hayfield gaining just enough airspeed to barely stagger off the ground Oftentimes 200 feet was the absolute ceiling on such a flight The throttle was bent to full open and stayed there
Many times he would roll gently into that first turn after takeoff with the airplane shuddering slightly near the edge of a stall Looking apprehenshysively at the water temperature and the airspeed he would swear to himself that if he got back on the ground without boiling the water in the engine he would quit flying until evening when it cooled off But of course youre invincible when you are young he said and when more customers lined up with dollar bills visible in their hands it was irresistible not to try it again
And so it would go again and again on a good day until it began to get
dark He and many other barnstormers taught themselves to fly at night on just such evenings The money was the inshycentive and the sun went down very slowly in the flatlands of the Midwest It was really a good learning system he said the ground got just a little harshyder to find each time you came back in to land but you got just a little better at it each time too And you had to be careful and learn fast with all your cusshytomers watching every landing you made A bounced landing would be bad for business a ground loop would put you out of business
When he finally had to hang it up after too many hours of flying that was more like persuasvie levitation hed shut down the OX-5 and pull off his helmet Together with his dirty face and clean eyes that had been protected by the goggles the helmet was his free pass for a ride on the Ferris wheel Greasing the OX-5 and other minor maintenance could wait until morning
Hed amble through the crowded midway helmet in hand occasionally winking at the local girls and sidle up to the big Ferris wheel for a cool and relaxing ride in the relative stillness of the night air The quiet alone must have been a tonic
As I sat up there at the top of the big wheel on that long ago summer evening listening to his calm reminiscshying I felt the privilege of his company and it seemed like time had turned back to the 1930s In the distance an old airplane labored free of the earth over at the Ottumwa airport The low rumshyble of its slow-turning engine attested to its seniority
It was on occasions like this I came to understand that pilots dont just fly airplanes they literally invented them Today as I enjoy the broad spectrum of my EAA friendships which include nearly every kind of aviator I am again reminded of our unique heritage We would do well to remember those roots whenever we fly build and work on airplanes Consider them as well when our rights and our freedoms are chalshylenged We are after all quite differshyent from cowboys They didnt invent horses bull
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27
PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Notice is hereby given that an annual business meeting of the members of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be held on Thursday August 2
1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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1990 at 1000 am (Central Daylight Time) at the 38th Annual Convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin
Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division will be conducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee EAA AntiqueClassic Division EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and received no later than July 30 1990
The Nominating Committee submits the following list of candidates Espie M Joyce President George S York Secretary Directors John Berendt Bob Brauer Gene R Chase George H Daubner III William A Eickhoff Charles W Harris Jean Lehman Hill Robert D Lumley Steve Nesse
Espie M Joyce Jr Madison North Carolina My father started flying three years before I was born so I have been around airplanes all my
life At age II a cropduster and friend gave me my first flying lesson I soloed at 16 and received my private license the following year I earned my commercial license during college in 1964 and later received my instrument rating Among the planes I have rebuilt are several J-3 Cubs and two Monocoupes a 90-A and a D-145 In 1967-68 I built a Pitts Special I presently own a 1940 clip wing Cub and a 1953 D-35 Bonanza I joined EAA in 1963 and am a lifetime member I am a long-time member of the AntiqueClassic Division I was appointed to the Board of Advisors in 1981 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 I was elected president in 1988
George S York Mansfield Ohio George learned to fly in the US Navy during World War II He soloed an Aeronca Chief in
March 1943 at Helena Montana He graduated from Ashland College in Ashland Ohio and was hired by Gorman-Rupp Company where he is currently Manager of Product Development George became interested in vintage and homebuilt aircraft in 1957 and has since restored several Aeroncas a Taylorcraft and recently completed restoring a Beech D 17S He is a charter member of the Staggerwing Museum and is SecretaryTreasurer and Newsletter Editor of the Staggerwing Club George joined EAA in 1962 and has been an active judge at Oshkosh since 1970 He is Chairman of the Classic Judging Committee and has been on the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors since August of 1980
John Berendt Cannon Falls Minnesota John started flying in the late 1950s and had his interest in aviation renewed in 1967 when he
discovered EAA Chapter 300 in Little Falls Minnesota He has owned an Aeronca Chief but is best known as President of the Fairchild type club since 1984 and editor of its newsletter The Fairchild Flyer John is a charter member of AntiqueClassic Chapter 13 in Minneapolis and has been a volunteer at the EAA Oshkosh Convention since 1975 concentrating his efforts on the 28 AntiqueClassic forums John has most recently served as an advisor to the AC Division
Bob Brauer Chicago Illinois Bob received a degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971
He served as a plane captain in P2V Neptune aircraft for the US Navy reserve NAS Glenview from 1958 until his honorable discharge in 1962 Bob holds a private license with an instrument airplane rating He joined EAA in 1972 and the AntiqueClassic Division in 1975 after volunteering to work on regular convention and pre-convention flight line duties He was appointed advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board in 1986 and elected director in 1988 Bob has co-authored a series of volunteer recognition articles for The Vintage Airplane as well as writing Chapter Capsules which appears on a regular basis By profession Bob is an electrical engineer In addition to his AntiqueClassic Division involvement he has served as an officer for six years in EAA Chapter 260 as treasurer and secretary
Gene R Chase Oshkosh Wisconsin Gene grew up in Scottsbluff Nebraska and has been interested in aviation as long as he can
remember He was an avid model airplane builder and a typical airport kid His first ride was in a Stinson SR-5 in 1936 Gene joined EAA in 1961 and was active in Chapter lOin Tulsa Oklahoma Aircraft he has owned include a Curtiss Wright Junior and a Church Midwing which he restored and later donated to the EAA Museum He currently owns a Heath Super Parasol Taylor E-2 Cub and a Davis D-I-W The latter two are licensed and flying In 1973 Gene accepted a position with EAA and with his wife Dorothy moved to Hales Corners Wi sconsin He retired as Senior Editor of Publications in 1987 and on May 5 1989 was appointed as Advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors At the past two Oshkosh Conventions he served on the ant ique aircraft judging committee
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George H Daubner III Hartford Wisconsin My love for flying started when I was 12 and attended my first air show at the Hartford Airport
I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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I realized then that I wanted to make flying a large part of my life I started flying in 1969 and earned my private ticket in 1970 In 1974 I was hired as a co-pilot flying Beech 18s and to manage the Hartford WI airport on weekends In the mid-70s the Hartford Airport was a hotbed for sport aviation During that period of time I was able to check out in many different types of antique and classic aircraft They included a Cub Stearman Great Lakes and Luscombe to name a few During that period I also learned the importance of sport aviation and our need to fight for our right to fly Im currently the chief pilot for a Milwaukee based corporation flying a 690 Commanshyder and in my spare time I am restoring a 1939 Luscombe 8A which I hope to have flying in late 90 or early 91
William A Bill Eickhoff St Petersburg Florida Bills interest in aviation started in the late 1960 s when he had his first flight in a J-3 Cub
with Freddie Quinn his father-in-law He later obtained his private pilot license His dedication to flying building and restoring aircraft led to his involvement with the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In some 14 years ago Bill has been a member of EAA since 1972 and participates through Chapter 47 in St Petersburg Bill has served as president of the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In for the last five years He is also a member of the Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association Bill is a principal of Eickhoff amp Pieper Inc an independent registered investment management company Bill his wife Suzy and their son Justin live in St Petersburg Florida
Charles W Harris Tulsa Oklahoma At the age of two Charlie received his first airplane ride in his fathers OX-5 TravelAir He
soloed when he was 16 He currently owns and flys an impressive collection of showcase airplanes Included are a Piper J3C65 Culver LFA Cadet three Luscombes an 8A and two 8Fs a Swift and two factory Pitts (SIS and S2A) He is a member of 27 aviation organizations including the Type Clubs for each of the airplanes he owns He is a life member of EAA a regular Oshkosh attendee and a member of EAAs AntiqueClassic lAC and Warbirds Divisions He has served three terms as President of EAA NC Ch 10 Tulsa of which he is a Charter member He has been Co-Chairman of the Tulsa Fly-In at Tahlequah Oklahoma for over IO years and has served as a Senior Co-Chairman since 1983 Charlie is currently a Director of EAAs Antique Classic Division and served as Chairman of the Interview Circle at Oshkosh 89
Jean Lehman Hill Harvard Illinois As a native of Oshkosh Wisconsin growing up just a few blocks from Wittman Airfield
Jeannies interest in aviation peaked at an early age After earning her degree in Audiology and her marriage to Richard Hill she moved to Burlington Wisconsin to restore a 1931 Kinner Bird biplane Since that first restoration Jeannie has restored two other vintage planes a 1937 J-2 Cub and a 1933 E-2 Cub the latter of which she soloed after completing it in 1980 At present Jeannie owns and flies the two Cubs a Tri-Pacer and a twin engine Cessna Bobcat (Bamboo Bomber) Restoration projects include another E-2 an F-2 (three cylinder engine) Cub a Pacer another Kinner Bird and an OX-5 Bird Jeannie has participated in every EAA convention held at Oshkosh She has volunteered and chaired several committees On May 5th Jeannie was elected an Advisor to the Board of Directors
Robert D Bob Lumley Colgate Wisconsin A native of Athens Georgia Bob Lumley currently lives in Colgate Wisconsin where he is
a superintendent for a construction firm Bob started flying in 1968 after serving two years in the Army He soloed in 1968 in a Piper PA-Il and now holds private and commercial pilot certificates Presently he owns and flies an Aeronca Chief In 1982 he joined the AntiqueClassic Division For the past five years he has served as chairman of the AntiqueClassic Fly-Out He has also served as co-chairman of the AntiqueClassic Volunteers For the past two years Bob has been Chairman of the Pioneer Video project - a program undertaken by the AntiqueClassic Division to capture on video as many aviation greats as possible Bob who is a member of AntiqueClassic Chapter II and serves as its activities director has been an advisor to the AntiqueClassic Board of Directors for the past two years
Steve Nesse Albert Lea Minnesota Steve was born in Albert Lea Minnesota and grew up on a farm near there Always having a
deep interest in aviation he received his private license in 1967 In 1975 he purchased a 1946 Navion from his father After joining EAA in 1967 at Rockford Steve has attended 23 consecutive EAA Conventions A charter member of AC Chapter 13 he served as vice-president for two years and is presently completing a two year term as president of that chapter Currently he serves as Chairman of the AC picnic and as co-chairman of the AC Parade of Flight After serving two years as an advi sor he is presently a Director of the AntiqueClassic Division
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PASS IT TO--l5 An information exchange column with input from readers
by Buck Hilbert (EM 21 NC 5) Po Box 424 Union IL 60180
Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
San Diego The Fleet is runnin great The Glue Angels are back from another Ensenada Mexico jaunt Armin Holles Starduster is going to be rebuilt after the taxi accident and the San Diego Air Museum Swallow PT is about finished
Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
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June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
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June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
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July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
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August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
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September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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Letter from Gene DeRuelie of Studio City California Gene it s great to hear from you again It s a long time since Star Trek Its nice to be brought up-to-date on the happenings out Santa Paula way Im just hoping I can get out that way and see all the goin s on Keep those letters coming
Nice letter from Matty Lairds daughter Joan Post She brings me upshyto-date on Mattys grandson Matty 28 JUNE 1990
who is just finishing up his multi-enshygine rating at Spartan Also Elsie Mrs Laird is doing fine might even make Oshkosh again this coming year
Several newsletters have been comshying in The Aeronca Varga The Robins Nest and the Mooney as well as the Cessna 170 All these are very welcome and let me in on what is hapshypening in the outside world They are most appreciated
I got a call from Bob Von Willer in
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Phone calls Dennis Trone Galena Illinois Dennis good luck on your Hisso Travel Air Hope it s as good as your description (See Members Projects Page 6)
Bill Woodward Thompsonville Michigan Kinner engines are unduly character assassinated A Kinner will run and run as long as it has spark and fuel Roughly Ill admit but itll run One nice thing about them is they let you know about a week in advance that they have a bellyache Then youd betshyter do something or you re in for a bad time Get rid of that metal prop though a woodie will absorb the power impulses better and feel much smoother
Another letter - Bob Redner West Bloomfield Michigan Bob thanks for letting me know Im not the only
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Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
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June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
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EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
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August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
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September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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one who pulls the prop through before the first start of the day Happy splash downs with your Sea Bee
Letter from Ed Lockhart Lakeside California including the Ode to Aerona Ed your public is waiting for more and more and more So am I You have a knack with the words and the typewriter that really gets it Get with it please
More phone calls - Rick Sisson of Wareham Massachusetts called reshygarding a ring cowl for his Great Lakes Rick is flying the Lakes that his dad restored and with a grand total of 75 hours all in taildraggers He got his license in a Citabria with his dad instructing he is now into aerobatics I think this is just great From talking with him he has his head on straight and with his dad in the process of reshystoring a Stearman hes in for some more open cockpit biplane time
Herb Morphew of Marseilles Ilshylinois called in to tell me he is doing an article for us on the Tillsbury Flash racer flown by Art Carnahan Herb is a contemporary of Bill Morrisey who was at Douglas at the same time he was they both retired back in the midshy1970s Herb is from the Bloomington Illinois area and knows an awful lot about the early days of that area Ive been encouraging him to tell the story and I know he will
Dave Colton from Canby Oregon called to tell me he is planning to put an Aeroncopy kit together for the homebuilder who might be interested in building an Aeronca C-3 replica If he can do it at the price he says he can itll be a real hot seller
Tommy Atkinson the L-5 driver from Las Vegas is sporting a new figshyure and a new leg Says hell be back flyin the L-5 as soon as he trains the new leg and foot to work the brake pedal Tommy had some bad luck with that leg - had an infection that turned real bad and they had to amputate He s doing great now though and lost 60 pounds too
Roger and Janice Bacon of Monshyrovia Indiana have quit the corporate pilot biz and have gone back to their first love ~ restoring and building Roger has done some beautiful work and we can expect to see some more of his efforts in the near future
Hiroshi Morita one of our Japanese members (we have more than 150) called for help in locating a propeller hub for his Kinner B-5 powered Fleet II Hiroshi and his beautiful actress
wife have come and camped at Oshshykosh for several years now He has grashyciously invited Dorothy and me to come visit him in Tokyo I had planned to accept his invite last year but the cataract operation sort of blew that one away We are going this spring though I want to visit as many of the members in Japan that I can Many reshymember the barnstorming we did with the Swallow over there in 1982 when United Airlines started service This time I want to meet Mr Honda and see his airport too
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A nice card and an update from Jim Haynes who puts out a neat little newsshyletter called the Robin s Nest for Robin owners He sez one of the Robins is coming back from South America after being rescued from a museum that went defunct He also sent a nice pix of his latest retoration - a Piper
Call from the San Diego Glue Angels reporter Bob (Red Baron) Van Willer Armin Holles Startduster is back in the air as of New Years Eve day Talk about a fast rebuild Bob did the work using a NEW set of wings acquired from another Starduster builder covered the whole package painted it and Armin reports its faster looks slicker and flies even better than it did before The Red Baron is now working on the Staggerwing that ran into the Starduster How about that I asked the Von if he d made any money on the deal He replied Enuf to buy me a Mercedes As the conversation proceeded I learned it is a 1976 so he
didnt make too much Got a nice card from Duane and
Judy Cole I dont think Duane will ever sit back and relax and let the world go by I talked to Woody Woods who flies with him using his Decathlon and Woody sez Duane never ceases to amaze him with his exshypertise on the controls Woody alshythough not a serious competitor does enjoy teaching aerobatics His recent move to the Las Vegas area in anticipashytion of retiring from United Airlines will give him a lot more flyin weather than here in Illinois
My spirits have reached a new low here the past couple weeks Being part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol I became quite concerned with the effect random drug testing was going to have on my 422 pilots here in the state We asked and we couldnt seem to get any answers from National Headquarters so we went after the guys in the Great Lakes Region CAP Still no answers so we sent to the FAA Great Lakes Region They sent out the man who heads the program Randall Read
Randall came out on his day off and made a presentation to the Illinois A vishyation Forum This affects everyone who flies for hire whether it be a balshyloonist sailplane enthusiast free-lance flight instructor AampP etc Its pretty far-reaching and a program is to be in place for each affected individual April 15 1990 (This has since been put off for at least one year Cheer up Buck -MP)
I listened for awhile and then when it came time for questions I asked how I was going to be affected Im a check pilot for the CAP strictly voluntary I do free-lance instructing BFRs tailshydragger check-outs whatever usually for free or for gas and oil I do AampP work on my own and CAP airplanes again more for fun and usually to help out a friend And I occasionally drive a school bus Now my question is will one program suffice for all of these acshytivities The answer was no I need a different program for each I think you can understand why Im in a funk Im about to become a private pilot or betshyter yet an ultralight pilot and get out of all these activities that introduce people to flying and help make it a little more affordable Im really in a quandry and dont know which way to tum Anybody out there got some sugshygestions
Over to you bull VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
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Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
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CHAMPS AND CHIEFS - The book for 7 and 11 model Aeroncas Factory approved service letters bulletins modifications repairs 15 charts illustrashytions 140 topics 240 pages FAA ADs Satisfacshytion guaranteed $2975 Charlie Lasher (author) 4660 Parker Ct Oviedo FL 32765
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ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
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June 1-2 - Bartlesville Oklahoma Bishyplane Expo 90 the National Biplane Asshysociation s Fourth Annual Convention and Exposition Frank Phillips Field Bartlesshyville Oklahoma Free to members of NBA For membership information contact Charles Harris NBA Hangar 54-1 Aviashytion lones-Riverside Airport Tulsa Okshylahoma Tel 918299-2532
June 1-3 - Mountain View Arkansas Cessna 190-195 Association Fly-in at Ozark Folk Center near the Wilcox Airport Contact Bill Terrell PO Box 340 Hillshysboro Ohio 45133-0340 Tel 513393shy1339 or Cliff Crabs 25575 Butternut Ridge Rd N Olmsted Ohio 44070-4505 Tel 2161777-4025 (eves)
June 1-3 - Merced California 33rd Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in Merced Municipal Airport Contact Merced Pilots Association PO Box 2312 Merced California 95344 or call Dick Esshycola at 209358-6707
June 3 - Tunkhannock Pennsylvania Skyhaven Airport Fly-In Breakfast 800am-200pm Contact Steve Gay Skyhaven Airport Tel 717836-4800 or 717836-3884
June 8-10 - Middletown Ohio Fifth Nashytional Aeronca Convention Aeronca facshytory Includes factory tour and visit to USAF Museum Contact lim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 2219 Terre Haute Indiana 47802 Tel 812232-1491
June 9 - Newport News Virginia 18th Annual Colonial Fly-in Sponsored by EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Airshyport Contact Chet Sprague 8 Sinclair Road Hampton Virginia 23669 Tel 804 723-3904
June 10 - Aurora Illinois Municipal Airshyport EAA Chapter 579 Fly-InDrive-In Breakfast amp AirportFBO Open House 730am-Noon Contact Alan Shackleto Tel 708466-4193 or Bob Rieser Airport Manager Tel 708466-7000
June 16-17 - Coldwater Michigan Sixth Annual Fairchild Reunion Branch County Memorial Field Contact Mike Kelly 22 Coldwater Drive Coldwater Michigan 49036 Tel 517278-7654
June 22-24 - Pauls Valley Oklahoma Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Flyshyin Contact Dick Darnell 100 Park Avenue Building Suite 604 Oklahoma City Okshylahoma 73102 Tel 405236-5635
June 23-24 - Orange Massachusetts 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in
30 JUNE 1990
Orange Airport Contact lames OConnell at 413498-2266
June 23-24 - Longview Texas Gregg County Airport Wings Over East Texas Annual Air Show Contact Robert Perry Rt 2 Box 159BA Kilgore TX 75662 Tel 214984-7521
June 28 - July 1 - Mount Vernon Ohio 31 st Annual Waco Reunion Wynkoop Airshyport Contact National Waco Club 700 Hill Avenue Hamilton Ohio 45015 Tel 513868-0084
July 7-8 - Emmetsburg Iowa Second Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in breakfast Emmetsburg Airport Contact Keith Hamden Box 285 Emmetsburg Iowa 50536 Tel 712852-3810
July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut 2nd Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Simsbury Airport Contact lim Kippen J1 Crestwood Street Simsbury Connecticut 06070 Tel 203651-0328
July 14-15 - lola Wisconsin Airport breakfast and Old Car Show Central County Airport lola Wisconsin Call 414 596-3530
July 14-15 - Delaware Ohio Airport just north of Columbus ARSA 9th annual EAA Chapter 9 Fly-In Food camping amp more Contact Art TenEyk 614363-6443 or Alan Harding 614442-0024
July 20-21 - Collingwood Ontario Secshyond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft Foundation Collingwood Airport (NY3) Contact Doug Murray 5 Plater Street RR No 3 Collingwood Ontario Canada L9Y 3Z2 Tel 705445-5433
July 20-21 - Coffeyville Kansas Funk Aircraft Owners Association Reunion Contact Ray Pahls 454 S Summitlawn Wichita Kansas 67209 Tel 316943shy6920
July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh Wisconsin 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention
EAA Oshkosh 90 Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin Contact EAA EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Tel 414426shy4800
August 18-19 - Schenectady New York Northeast Flight 90 Airshow Schenecshydady County Airport Contact lohn Panoski Northeast Flight 90 419 Mohawk Mall Schenectady New York J2309 Tel 5181382-0041
August 19 - Brookfield Wisconsin 5th Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter II at Capitol Drive Airport Contact George Meade 5514 N Navajo Avenue Glendale Wisshyconsin 53217 Tel 414962-2428
August 24-26 - Sussex New lersey 18th Annual Sussex Air Show Sussex Airport Call 201 875-7337 or 702-9719
September 1-3 - Blakesburg Iowa Culver Cadet 50th Anniversary Celebrashytion Antique Field Copntact Burke Bell 3795 Smuggler PI Boulder Colorado 80303 Tel 303494-0108 or Dan Nicholshyson 713351-0114
September 8 - Chico California Chico Antique Airshow Chico Airport Contact Chico Antique Airshow Committee 6 St Helens Lane Chico California 95926 Tel 916342-3730
September 14-16 - Tahlequah Okshylahoma (50 miles eastsoutheast of Tulsa) 33rd Annual Tulsa Fly-in and 10th Annual Bucker Fly-in Contact Charlie Harris 3933 South Peoria Tulsa Oklahoma 74105 Tel 9181742-7311 Bucker fans contact Frank Price Route I Box 419 Moody Texas 76557 Tel 8171772-3897 or 853-2008
September 15-16 - Rock Falls Illinois Fourth Annual North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-in Pancake breakfast Sunshyday Contact Dave Christansen at 815625shy6556
October 6-7 - Sussex New lersey Airshyport Fly-In sponsored by EAA AC Chapshyter 7 and EAA Chapters 238 73 and 891 Info Bill Tuchler 2011797-3835 Konrad Kundig 201361-8789FAX 201 36 1shy5760 or Paul Steiger Sussex Airport 201 702-9719
October 13-14 - Hickory North Carolina Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 731 5th Annual Fly-In Contact Norman Rainwashyter 1415 Linwood Place Lenoir NC 28645 evenings 704578-1919 or Lynn Crowell 113 Auld Farm Road Lenoir NC 28645 7041754-2723
Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet 25e per word 5500 minimum charge Send your ad to
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AIRCRAFT 1961 Piper PA-22-108 Colt -150 hours SMOH and restoration Two people plus 36 gallons fuel and 100 Ibs luggage Cleveland brakes EL T Esshycort 110 EGT CHT beacon new glass tires and Dacron cover A lot of flight time for $9800 Call Chuck at 414426-4815 days and 414235-8714 evenings (CST-WI) ufn
Yes a 1940 Stinson 10 - This fine old aircraft $950000 (Canadian) Springhouse Aviation Box 38 RA 1 Widgeon Drive Williams Lake BC V2G 2Pl 604392-2186 (9-5)
Cessna 170B - 1952 450 SMOH Clear shystraight bush STOL kit Good radios and paint $20500 4141725-6787 (6-1)
1938 Ryan SCW - One of 12 made Polished fast no radios one of the nicest flying airplanes ever Continental engine $325K Serious only 4151743-9272
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1910-1950 Original Plane and Pilot Items - Buy - sell - trade 44-page catalog over 350 items availshyable $500 Airmailed John Aldrich POB-706shyAirport Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (9-6)
CLASSIC AVIATION BOOK - Crusader Comshyprehensive 180-page look at 200 mph + futuristic early-1930s airplane its young genius designer financial intrigue that scuttled production plans AVIATIONS VERSION OF TUCKER 300 + previshyously unpublished drawings photos including Amelia Earhart and dozens of rare aircraft designs Gorgeous full-page color illustrations and dustjacshyket Huge 11 x 16 inch serial-numbered hard-cover limited edition with authors designers signature - FUTURE COLLECTORS ITEM Special price for EAA members $6850 plus $5 shipping (Mass residents add sales tax) Or send for details $200 Rare Birds Publishing PO Box 67 South Berlin Mass 01549 (6-2)
CHAMPS AND CHIEFS - The book for 7 and 11 model Aeroncas Factory approved service letters bulletins modifications repairs 15 charts illustrashytions 140 topics 240 pages FAA ADs Satisfacshytion guaranteed $2975 Charlie Lasher (author) 4660 Parker Ct Oviedo FL 32765
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EAA Membership in the Experimental Aircraft ASSOCiation Inc is $3000 for one year including 12 issues of Sport Aviation Junior Membership (under 19 years of age) is available at $1800 annually Family Membership is available for an additional $1000 annually All major credit cards accepted formembership FAX (414) 426-4873
ANTIQUECLASSICS EAA Member - $1800 Includes one year membership in EAA Anshytique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership card Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number
Non-EAA Member - $2800 Inshycludes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airshyplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included
lAC Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $3000 anshynually which includes 12 issues of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA
WAR BIRDS Dynamic Antique Radial Engine Balancing shySpecializing in Warner 145 165 185 engines Smooth out the vibration when rebuilding 904 768-5031 (7-4)
Engine Parts - for Continental A50 65 75 80 and their accessories - cylinder cases cams rods gears everything but crankshafts Send want list to Air Salvage of Arkansas Rt 1 Box 8020 Mena Arkansas 71953 call 501 394-1022 (-591)
Good Used Ignition Harnesses - tested okay Fuel pumps in boxes Rod bolts in plastic bags All properly identified as removed from engines going in for overhaul Air Salvage of Arkansas Rt 1 Box 8020 Mena Arkansas 71953 501 394-1022 (-5 91)
MISCELLANEOUS NEW EAA REFERENCE GUIDE - Now in one volume Covering all EAA journals 1953 through 1989 Newly organized easier to read MUCH REshyDUCED PRICE Past purchasers $750 USD plus $150 UPSpostage $300 Canadian $700 other New purchasers $15 USD plus $1 50 UPSpostshyage $300 Canadian $700 other VISAMASTERshyCARD accepted John B Bergeson 6438 W Millbrook Road Remus MI 49340 517561-2393 Note Have all journals Will make copy of any arshyticle(s) from any issue at 25(1 per page ($300 minimum)
Meticulous Delineations - Antique scale model construction plans or wall decor by Vern Clements (AC 5989) 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 CatalogInfoNews $300 refundable (7-4)
Super Cub PA18 fuselages repaired or rebuilt - in precision master fixtures All makes of tube assemblies or fuselages repaired or fabricated new J E Soares Inc 7093 Dry Creek Road Belshygrade Montana 59714 406388-6069 Repair Stashytion D65-21 (UFN)
CURTISS JN4-D MEMORABILIA - You can now own memorabiiia from this famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RIC documentation exclusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreciate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Avishyation Co RDv-5 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (c11-90)
Bamboo Bomber Parts - Complete tail feathers flaps ailerons and some fairings 203269-1941 (6-1)
HANGARS Airplane Hangars - Save up to 50 on Arch Style Steel Buildings Factory clearance on 50 x 40 60 x 60 50 x 50 and others EX 50 x 40 arches only $379400 Universal Steel 1-800-548-6871 (c-491)
Quonset Style Steel Buildings - Ideal for airplane hangars equipment and workshops East to erect and disassemble Buy factory direct and save up to 40 percent US ARCH BUILDINGS CORPORATION National 1-800-527-4044 (-5 91)
Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $3000 per year which includes a subscription to Warbirds Warbird members are required to be members of EAA
EAA EXPERIMENTER EAA membership and EAA EXPERIshyMENTER magazine is available for $2800 per year (Sport Aviation not included) Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER for $1800 per year
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(1I ISTITS POLY-FIBER 1 THE MOST POPULAR I1 AIRCRAFT COVERING MATERIALS 55 IIN AVIATION HISTORY I IHERES WHYI Proven Durability on Thousands of AircraftI FAAmiddotSTC for Over 660 Aircraft Models Over 23 Years Service IIiI1I History Superior Quality Coatings Developed and Manufactured I lI Under the Quality Control of an FAA-PMA especially for Polyester II Fabric on Aircraft Not Brittle Automotive Finishes Modified Short Life I IIiI1 Water Borne House Paint or Tinted and Relabeled Cellulose Dope II Will Not Support Combustion Lightest Covering Approved ~ IIiI1 Under FAAmiddotSTC and PMA Most Economical Covering Materials 11111
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
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AIRCRAFT 1961 Piper PA-22-108 Colt -150 hours SMOH and restoration Two people plus 36 gallons fuel and 100 Ibs luggage Cleveland brakes EL T Esshycort 110 EGT CHT beacon new glass tires and Dacron cover A lot of flight time for $9800 Call Chuck at 414426-4815 days and 414235-8714 evenings (CST-WI) ufn
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CHAMPS AND CHIEFS - The book for 7 and 11 model Aeroncas Factory approved service letters bulletins modifications repairs 15 charts illustrashytions 140 topics 240 pages FAA ADs Satisfacshytion guaranteed $2975 Charlie Lasher (author) 4660 Parker Ct Oviedo FL 32765
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Engine Parts - for Continental A50 65 75 80 and their accessories - cylinder cases cams rods gears everything but crankshafts Send want list to Air Salvage of Arkansas Rt 1 Box 8020 Mena Arkansas 71953 call 501 394-1022 (-591)
Good Used Ignition Harnesses - tested okay Fuel pumps in boxes Rod bolts in plastic bags All properly identified as removed from engines going in for overhaul Air Salvage of Arkansas Rt 1 Box 8020 Mena Arkansas 71953 501 394-1022 (-5 91)
MISCELLANEOUS NEW EAA REFERENCE GUIDE - Now in one volume Covering all EAA journals 1953 through 1989 Newly organized easier to read MUCH REshyDUCED PRICE Past purchasers $750 USD plus $150 UPSpostage $300 Canadian $700 other New purchasers $15 USD plus $1 50 UPSpostshyage $300 Canadian $700 other VISAMASTERshyCARD accepted John B Bergeson 6438 W Millbrook Road Remus MI 49340 517561-2393 Note Have all journals Will make copy of any arshyticle(s) from any issue at 25(1 per page ($300 minimum)
Meticulous Delineations - Antique scale model construction plans or wall decor by Vern Clements (AC 5989) 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 CatalogInfoNews $300 refundable (7-4)
Super Cub PA18 fuselages repaired or rebuilt - in precision master fixtures All makes of tube assemblies or fuselages repaired or fabricated new J E Soares Inc 7093 Dry Creek Road Belshygrade Montana 59714 406388-6069 Repair Stashytion D65-21 (UFN)
CURTISS JN4-D MEMORABILIA - You can now own memorabiiia from this famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RIC documentation exclusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreciate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Avishyation Co RDv-5 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (c11-90)
Bamboo Bomber Parts - Complete tail feathers flaps ailerons and some fairings 203269-1941 (6-1)
HANGARS Airplane Hangars - Save up to 50 on Arch Style Steel Buildings Factory clearance on 50 x 40 60 x 60 50 x 50 and others EX 50 x 40 arches only $379400 Universal Steel 1-800-548-6871 (c-491)
Quonset Style Steel Buildings - Ideal for airplane hangars equipment and workshops East to erect and disassemble Buy factory direct and save up to 40 percent US ARCH BUILDINGS CORPORATION National 1-800-527-4044 (-5 91)
Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $3000 per year which includes a subscription to Warbirds Warbird members are required to be members of EAA
EAA EXPERIMENTER EAA membership and EAA EXPERIshyMENTER magazine is available for $2800 per year (Sport Aviation not included) Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER for $1800 per year
FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS
Please submit your remittance with a check or draft drawn on a United States bank payable in United States dollars
Make checks payable to EAA or the division in which membership is desired Address all letters to EAA or the particular division at the folshylowing address
EAA A VIATION CENTER PO BOX 3086
OSHKOSH WI 54903-3086 PHONE (414) 426-4800
FAX (414) 426-4828 OFFICE HOURS
815-500 MON-FRI
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31
THE ARCHIVES p~ pn tpUVt p~ CoUeauut
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Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for domiddotitmiddotyourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $3 00
Qir~RODUCTS INC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA -Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295middot4115 ~
(1I ISTITS POLY-FIBER 1 THE MOST POPULAR I1 AIRCRAFT COVERING MATERIALS 55 IIN AVIATION HISTORY I IHERES WHYI Proven Durability on Thousands of AircraftI FAAmiddotSTC for Over 660 Aircraft Models Over 23 Years Service IIiI1I History Superior Quality Coatings Developed and Manufactured I lI Under the Quality Control of an FAA-PMA especially for Polyester II Fabric on Aircraft Not Brittle Automotive Finishes Modified Short Life I IIiI1 Water Borne House Paint or Tinted and Relabeled Cellulose Dope II Will Not Support Combustion Lightest Covering Approved ~ IIiI1 Under FAAmiddotSTC and PMA Most Economical Covering Materials 11111
I~I5 5VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE ~ FABRIC COVERING WITH RAY STITS Sponsored by EAA II Aviation Foundation Before Making Expensive Mistakes See This I ~ Tape and LEARN HOW TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME VHS lI IIiI1 or Beta $4995 Also Direct from EAA (1-800-843middot3612) and from 5 ~ Stlts Dlstrlb~tors PAL PAL-M PALmiddotN amp SECAM also Available ~II~I ~ Especially for Aircraft Covering Poly-Fiber Manual with II IDetailed Instructions for Fabric Covering and Painting Aircraft I for Corrosion Control Latest Catalog and Distributor List 1I IS T ITS POLY FIBERI AIRCRAFT COATINGS II IPO Box 3084middotV RiverSide CA 925191 ~Phone (714) 684-4280
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 33
by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
CALL DIRECT TODA Y FOR AN IMMEDIA TE NO OBLIGATlON QUOTE
1-800-638-8440
CAVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY
By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
THE ARCHIVES p~ pn tpUVt p~ CoUeauut
MANUFACTURER DIRECT
HANGARS BUi l DING MATERIAL
Less Than 12 Price Sale Example42 wide x 36 long - Frames Sheeting and Hardware Inc 40x12 Bi-fold Door with Electric door lift
$15266 Value NOW Your Price
ONLY $7593 SO M E OTH ER SI ZES AVAILABLE
~MIRACLE WILL SHIP NATIONWIDE
Call Toll Free - 1middot800middot843middot8275 612middot593middot1000
FAX 612middot544middot1835
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for domiddotitmiddotyourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $3 00
Qir~RODUCTS INC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA -Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295middot4115 ~
(1I ISTITS POLY-FIBER 1 THE MOST POPULAR I1 AIRCRAFT COVERING MATERIALS 55 IIN AVIATION HISTORY I IHERES WHYI Proven Durability on Thousands of AircraftI FAAmiddotSTC for Over 660 Aircraft Models Over 23 Years Service IIiI1I History Superior Quality Coatings Developed and Manufactured I lI Under the Quality Control of an FAA-PMA especially for Polyester II Fabric on Aircraft Not Brittle Automotive Finishes Modified Short Life I IIiI1 Water Borne House Paint or Tinted and Relabeled Cellulose Dope II Will Not Support Combustion Lightest Covering Approved ~ IIiI1 Under FAAmiddotSTC and PMA Most Economical Covering Materials 11111
I~I5 5VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE ~ FABRIC COVERING WITH RAY STITS Sponsored by EAA II Aviation Foundation Before Making Expensive Mistakes See This I ~ Tape and LEARN HOW TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME VHS lI IIiI1 or Beta $4995 Also Direct from EAA (1-800-843middot3612) and from 5 ~ Stlts Dlstrlb~tors PAL PAL-M PALmiddotN amp SECAM also Available ~II~I ~ Especially for Aircraft Covering Poly-Fiber Manual with II IDetailed Instructions for Fabric Covering and Painting Aircraft I for Corrosion Control Latest Catalog and Distributor List 1I IS T ITS POLY FIBERI AIRCRAFT COATINGS II IPO Box 3084middotV RiverSide CA 925191 ~Phone (714) 684-4280
Ir~
pO box 88 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216
AWWA MEMBER
MEMBER
rANI( PAINTiNb AND REPAIRING
SANDtLASTING TANK LINUS AND COAr lNGS
PREVEN TiVE rANK AINTENANCE INSPKIION SERV ICE LADDER SMETY EOuIPENl
RESERVOII LINERS AND ROOfS
DISMANTLING AND OilING TANKS
NEW USEO ANO _poundCONOITIONED TANKS
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 33
by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
CALL DIRECT TODA Y FOR AN IMMEDIA TE NO OBLIGATlON QUOTE
1-800-638-8440
CAVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY
By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
MANUFACTURER DIRECT
HANGARS BUi l DING MATERIAL
Less Than 12 Price Sale Example42 wide x 36 long - Frames Sheeting and Hardware Inc 40x12 Bi-fold Door with Electric door lift
$15266 Value NOW Your Price
ONLY $7593 SO M E OTH ER SI ZES AVAILABLE
~MIRACLE WILL SHIP NATIONWIDE
Call Toll Free - 1middot800middot843middot8275 612middot593middot1000
FAX 612middot544middot1835
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for domiddotitmiddotyourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $3 00
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by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
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By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
by George Hardie Jr
ThiS months Mystery Plane will apshypeal to air racing fans The photo is from the EAA archives date and locashytion not known Answers will be pubshylished in the September 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is July 10
The March Mystery Plane is the Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 built in 1931 by the Buckley Aircraft Co of Wichita Kansas George Goodhead who sent in the photo sent along a copy of a company brochure which deshyscribes the airplane Here are some inshyteresting quotes from it
The Buckley all-metal low-wing monoplane is the culmination of fifteen years of experimentation and engineershying in the metal field and is the answer to the increasing demand for safety with speed and comfort in flying
Not only does the Buckley Wichcraft provide a maximum of safety through its all-meta low-wing construction it also embodies a refineshyment of design which allows for high speed and performance with perfect comfort for the passengers Most imshyportant of all this design allows for manufacture at a cost which brings it within the price range of the wood and fabric ship an outstanding achieveshyment in metal plane construction
three passengers and a pilot although an alternate seating arrangement could provide for two additional passengers Wingspan was 50 feet and power was a Pratt amp Whitney Junior of 500 hp Price at the factory was $12500
The famous designer William B Stout was involved in the project In his book So Away I Went he writes
They retained us to redesign and build a four-passenger plane for them and we invested some money and time with the group in starting the project The result was the Buckley airplane a low-wing cabin plane very much like
the later Northrop Douglas DC-3 and others which followed the trend
The plane was completed under the direction of Frank Smith We had many preliminary difficulties in buildshying this plane most of them financial and I finally found myself pretty deep into the money picture as well as the engineering one We had a very friendly and courageous bunch of inshyvestors but the world had not yet come to much vision regarding the future of flying
However the ship finally rolled out of the plant an excellent looking plane and structure Quite a group gathered for the first flights including Lou HoIshyland who flew down from Kansas City These flights were very successshyful and the plane was used in a number of cross-country flights which we made to various points trying to promshyote the next step
Then came the 1929 bank crash and this project crashed with it Buckley the plane and most of the group were taken to Los Angeles where they worked at the Northrop plant
Only one answer was received for this Mystery Plane Cedric Galloway of Hesperia California correctly idenshytified it as the Buckley So once again we have rescued an unknown airplane from obscurity bull
The Wichcraft was designed to carry Buckley Wichcraft LC-4 34 JUNE 1990
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
CALL DIRECT TODA Y FOR AN IMMEDIA TE NO OBLIGATlON QUOTE
1-800-638-8440
CAVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY
By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
WhatKindOf Customer Service Do You Expect From Your Aviation Insurance Company
Customer service Its the ability to give you the answers you need to each of your aviation insurance questions quickly and accurately Its talking to an underwriter with the authority to fulfill your coverage requests the first time you call Its having your insurshyance record at an underwriters fingertips with computerized speed
At AVEMCO weve made a strong investshyment in providing you with the best possible customer service When you call our toll-free quote line our underwriters can offer you more combinations of coverage limits and deductshyibles to meet your needs faster than ever before
Were committed to providing you with a level of customer service that sets the standard in aviation insurance Call today and find out for yourself
CALL DIRECT TODA Y FOR AN IMMEDIA TE NO OBLIGATlON QUOTE
1-800-638-8440
CAVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY
By Aviation People For Aviation People THE SPOIlT IWWION ASSOCIATION
