VA-Vol-29-No-8-Aug-2001

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STRAIGHT AND LEVEUButchJoyce

2 VAA NEWS HGFrautschy

4 REMINISCING WITH DUTCH Dutch Redfield

6 AIRMAIL PILOT Win Goulden

8 WINDSOCKS YOU CAN BUILD

RobertShogren Jr amp H G Frautschy

12 AIRCRAFT MARKINGS HG Frautschy

14 CUSTOM WITH A FLAIR HG Frautschy

19 A TALE OF TWO CLiPPERS

Build Davisson

23 MYSTERY PLANE HG Frautschy

24 PASS IT TO BUCK Buck Hilbert

26 NEW MEMBERS

28 CALENDAR

30 CLASSIFIEDS

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PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

Fly-In Notes I am writing this Straight amp Level less than 10 days

before I depart for Oshkosh and EAA AirVenture 2001 Some of you will be reading this as you attend the conshyvention Welcome to our ranks I hope youll find your stay enjoyable If theres anything we can do to enhance your experience be sure to stop by the Vintage Red Barn and let us know

Most of you will be reading this after you return home and AirVenture 2001 is history Well be sure to give you plenty of highlights here in the pages of Vintage Airshyplane in the coming months

It is quite easy to tell that it is getting closer most of my days are now spent dealing with different factors reshylating to the operation of the vintage area of the convention grounds While filling out the chairman list that I submit to the convention office each year I noshyticed that my years of service as a volunteer now number 27

It made me think back to the number of trips that I have made to Oshkosh I have traveled by almost all means of transportation I have driven the trip often sometimes alone and on other occasions with six people in the car I have flown the trip occasionally by airline but most often Ive flown my own airplane or been someone elses co-pilot As for lodging I have camped in a pup tent stayed in the back of my pickup camper shell bunked at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh dorms and for a number of years stayed at several different moshytels Im back to camping now that we bring an RV I really find staying at the campgrounds to be the most enjoyable by far

When I once again have a vintage airplane to show

off I will be flying to the show Four to five hours of flyshying time sure beats 21 hours of driving However the trip has been made it has always been fun As most of you are aware the opening day for EAA AirVenture 2001 has been moved forward one day Were all curious to see how this works out since a number of events will have to be shifted a day or two on the schedule In next months column lIlet you know how it went There may be a need to further adjust the schedule or timing of some of these activities If you have any suggestions that you feel would benefit your Vintage Aircraft Association please contact me at any time

In an unfortunate series of coincidences a number of major fly-in events have been cancelled Each cancellashytion was due to some sort of issue with the venue for each fly-in and each of the organizers plan to be back with us next year First was the Copperstate Fly-In dropped for this year while they work to find a more suitable location Then the National Biplane Fly-In was cancelled this year because of construction delays at the Bartlesville Oklahoma airport And the news is just out that the Golden West Fly-In has been cancelled until they can find another suitable location

The Vintage Aircraft Association has been moving to a stronger committee structure to deal with the different matters that the officers and directors review at each board meeting Ill have a list of these committees and each committee chairmen next month As members youll be invited to give your input to the appropriate committee chairman Lets all pu ll in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better toshygether Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

COVERS FRONT COVER Marty Lochman wanted a nice custom airplane and he spent 11 years making certain his Cessna 140 was just what he was looking for in a restoration project He and his wife Sharon took home the Custom Grand Champion Classic award from Sun n Fun 2001 EM photo by Jim Koepnick shot with a Canon EOS1 n equipped with an 80shy200 mm lens on 100 ASA Fuji slide film EM Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER Morning Rush Hour Americus Georgia 1941 is the title of Paul Eckleys acrylic on Masonite painting Heres what Paul wrote In April of 1941 I was an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Corps I had been sent to primary flying school at Americus Georgia I had always wanted to do a painting that would show the early morning scramble of the cadets and their instructors in their Stearman PT-17 aircraft The field had a surface of red Georgia clay When dry it proshyduced enormous amounts of red dust and when wet it was slippery and extremely gooey Paul s art career parallels the time he served in the military and his subsequent civilian career Six months after graduating from the Pratt Institute an art school in Brooklyn New York he enlisted in the aviation cadets and he graduated from flying school five days after the attack on Pearl Harbor He was soon the co-pilot on a B-17 winging its way from McDill Field in Tampa to Java in the South Pacific He eventually wound up as a member of the 19th New Bomb Group flying from Australia and New Guinea After serving as a command pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Air Force for 24 years (including a stint as the director of graphic arts at the Pentagon) he worked as an office manager at the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMshySAT) Retiring to Florida he has continued to paint and has had paintings exhibited at the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola and the EM AirVenture Museum Pauls a member of the American Society of Aviation Artists (ASAA) and you can view his artwork at wwweckleyaviationartcom For more inforshymation you can send him e-mail at theartisteckleyaviationartcom or regular mail at 2695 Augusta Drive N Clearwater FL 33761

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WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST VAA CHAPTER

Congratulations to our n ew est VAA Chapter Chapter 36 based in Troy Ohio Richard Amrhein i s their first president and you can call him at 93 7 335-1444 for information They meet every second M onday of the month at the Waco Field hangar M eetings start at about 8 pm

TARVER (AEROMATIC) PROPS The latest information we have

on Tarver props shows some moveshym ent on their statu s as an FAA approved facility Tarver is now apshyproved as an FAA certificated repair stati on for Aeromatic propellers They hold the type certificate for the Aeromatic and issued the recent sershyvice bulletin regarding inspection of the propeller blades While an airshyworthiness directive (AD) wa s not issued against the Aeromatic comshypliance with the bulletin is strongly encouraged You can get a copy of the service bull etin at www aero

maneeom You can also e-mail Kent Tarve r at kentphonewave net If you must call please do so between 7 and 9 am or bet w een 7 and 9 pm at 775423-0378

The fact that an AD was n o t i sshysued against the Tarver prop i s an excellent example of cooperation beshytween the FA A EAA and Ty pe Clubs as comments concerning the actual extent of the problem were gathered using the Airworthines s Concern Sheet process Once the FAA was satisfied that the issue was being given the correct level of atshytention using the service bulletin they determined an AD wasnt warshyrant ed Thanks t o all wh o participated in the process w hich continues to ben efit both the FAA and recreational aviation

BIPLANE EXPOTULSA REGIONAL FLY-IN CANCELED

The spon soring organizations of the 15th Annual Biplane Expo and 45th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In

Registration markings on vintage airplanes can often be the source of confusion Heres an unusual case Its the prototype of the stick-controlled version of the prewar Aeronca Chief Densil Williams decided to restore the airplane as it appeared just after its completion when it was being flown with an experimental airworthiness certificate The X can be included in the color scheme even if the airplane is currently registered with a standard airworthiness certificate Densil also chose to use the large 24-inch numbers on the wings since they were part of the markings when the Chief was built For more on how youre allowed to mark your restoration see Vintage Markings starting on page 12

announced the cancellation of the combined aviation event which was scheduled for September 21-22 at Frank Phillips Field Bartlesville Okshylahoma

A major taxiway construction proshyject which has been ongoing since late September 2000 has experishyenced extensive weather-related delays through the fall and winter of 2000 and spring of 2001 said Chairshyman Charles W Harris The uncertainties and unpredictability of a completion date and related access to the airport taxiway ramps and general field parking areas necessishytated the decision to cancel for September 200l

The two events both among the largest sport aviation gatherings in the United States plan to reschedule in Bartlesville in 2002 on their tradishytional dates based on acceptable fie ld conditions For more information call Harris at 918622-8400

MORE ON LOOSE COVERING We just got a call from Butch

Walsh who has restored many Stinshysons to showplane condition He wanted us to correct something writshyten by Dip Davis in last months magazine

Butch asked that we point out that Stinson did indeed attach the fabric to the top of the fuselage by mechanical means They originally used 40 screws to attach the fabric to the formers and stringers He also confirmed that as Dip Davis correctly pOinted out they did not cover the top of the fuel tanks but ran a strip of fabric tape around the perimeter to seal the gap between the fuel tanks and the wing structure

Not attaching the fabric to the top of the cabin will cause the fabric to chafe especially if the fabric is inshystalled too loosely It wou ldn t take much wear for the fabric to come loose from the top of the cabin

When shrunk using the proper iron settings Dacron fabric will shrink ten percent If the fabric is inshystalled too loosely to start with no amount of heat shrinkage will propshyerly shrink it over the structure It

shou ld be covered so it is relatively free of wrinkles and does not droop excessively between rib bays or steel tube structures If youre not sure how tight is tight enough the Airshycraft Fabric Covering video (PLU Fl1636) from the EAA SportAir workshyshop available from EAAs Membership Services department is a great place to get smart Call them at 800342-3612 The tape retails for $3995 plus shipping

e-HOT LINE LAUNCHED EAA recently launched e-Hot Line

a new weekly e-mail newsletter for EAA members its divisions and affilshyiates Delivered weekly to subscribers on Friday afternoon e-Hot Line proshyvides brief reports of current EAA

news including sport pilot updates upcoming EAA Chapter events genshyeral and recreational aviation news and a question of the week Hypershylinks connect you to more complete information on EAAs website as well as other sites e-Hot Line is available in both HTML and plain text forshymats To subscribe to e-Hot Line log on to the EAA website at wwweaaorg Click on the Members Only button along the left side of the page Enter your last name and EAA number to enter the site Click on the e-Hot Line logo then complete the online regisshytration form Be sure to select the version you wish to receive then click Subscribe An e-mail will be immediately sent to you confirming your subscription to e-Hot Line

WRIGHT EXPERIENCE EXAMINES ORIGINAL WRIGHT ENGINE NO3

Led by Ken Hyde of The Wright Experience the Discovery of Flight Foundation is undertaking an exshytensive and careful examination of the third Wright engine ever built On loan from the Engineers Club of Dayton where it has been on disshyplay for more than 50 years the third engine was often referred to by Orville Wright as the guinea pig

When the examination is comshy

plete after six months a full set of digital images and blueprints will ilshylustrate how the Wrights and Charlie Taylor built their early enshygines For more information visit wwwwrightexperiencecom For more information on the Engineers Club of Dayton of which Orville Wright was a charter member when it opened its doors in 1918 visit wwwengineersclubdaytonorg

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

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by Dutch Redfield

Over the past couple of years weve received a number of comments from members who enjoyed the series ofarticles written by Dutch Redfield He was kind enough to send along a few more anecdotes from his experiences during the golden age ofaviation -HG Frautschy

An American Airways Curtiss Conshydor en route from Cleve land to Newark landed at Syracuse in a gathshyering eveni n g snowstorm Th e airplane loomed out of the steadi ly increasing snow above the two large floodlights on the fi eld s edge that lighted the landing path on the now snow-covered field The Condors landing lights were also on as the plane touched down and taxied to the floodlighted ramp in front of the airports tin y administration building

The Condor was a large twin-enshygine biplane with Wright Cyclone engi n es mounted close inboard on each lower wing The fabric-covered wings and fuselage were finished in magnificently shiny American Airshyways colors dark blue fuselage and bright red wings There were no deshyicers on the wings leading edges or tail

As the planes engines clanked to a stop I was on the gas truck to help Tex Perrin fue l the plane With ladshy

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der in place Tex climbed to the wing and then I passed up the large filter funn el and the heavy hose and climbed up beside Tex in the blowshying snow Once the wing tanks were fi lled Tex pulled the fuel truck away I stepped into the small dispatch ofshyfice to soak up some heat and get out of the whistling wind

Ernie Dryer the pilot who was in a heavy overcoat and American Airshyways cap stood at the station managers desk conversing on the phone with the airlines flight conshytrol center in Newark He explained the flight cond iti ons and recomshymended canceling the trip at Syracuse and then originating a westshybound flight the next day with the same airplane and crew I didnt hear the other side of the conversation but short ly the phone was crashed into its cradle and Dryer stomped out of the door He followed by his co-pilot trudged through the deepshyeni n g snow and climbed back aboard It was a lousy night for flyshy

ing as the Condor lifted off and banked eastward The slanting wet snow was very apparent in the beams of the planes lights I had a feeling of apprehension I wished Ernie well as I climbed into my car and headed for home

The next mornings radio news reshyported the airp lane overdue never having reached its next scheduled stop at Albany In late morning search flights were organized and on a now clear cold winters day as an observer I accompanied Francis Loomis and Jim Heffernan in Loomis Stinson Detroiter We reshymained airborne for several hours with all eyes outside as we crissshycrossed the Condors route across the lower Adirondack Mountains

Many aircraft from Syracuse Utica and Albany also searched Two days later the Condor still had not been located Then in late afternoon a plane from Utica saw a spot of red The Condor had crashed in heavy woods All passengers and crew surshy

vived thanks to the slow speed of the airplane

Precipitation snow static impingshying on the planes long antennas made useless the low-frequency rashydios then being used for en route navigation But worse than that the Condors wings had iced up in the wet snow distorting airflows and dishyminishing lift to the point that only descending flight could maintain control In the dark of night in the dimly illuminated cockpit Ernie had no way of determining where he was coming down and whether he wanted to or not

Today perhaps it was then the captains decision regarding the safe operation of a flight is and should be final The chief pilot may later question it but it should not be overruled

Around two oclock on a busy Sunshyday afternoon of a rare three-day Fourth of July weekend we were ofshyfloading and reloading between flights when a man with a large camshyera case and photographic gear stepped alongside the rolled-down pilots window of the Waco cabin He said that he was a photographer for Life magazine and that it was imshyperative he charter the airplane so he could fly down the river and photoshygraph the St Lawrence Seaway then

under construction My passengers were already

aboard Bill was pushing us away from the dock waiting for me to start the Jacobs I yelled to the man from Life that I was sorry we were too busy to shut down operations for a 30- or 40-minute flight down the river on a busy weekend like this

But he was still there when we reshyturned to the dock for another load He pleaded that his editor had given him a deadline that simply had to be met and asked how much the flight would cost I again told him that I could not leave a line of waiting passhysengers that had already paid for their ride

When we returned for the next flight he was still there and this time he told me that price was no object he just had to get these pictures I told him $150 He shouted Fine Lets go and loaded his camera gear while Bill and I poured some tins of fuel aboard

We took off turned east and were soon banking this way and that as we flew down the river so he could get his photographs In a short while he was satisfied and we were back at our dock and again hard at work At the completion of another flight I was surprised to see him alongside the cabin window again He was humble and chagrined He had

failed to remove the lens cover from his camera We would have to go back and do it again Okay an shyother $150

Because of the time of day inshyvolved there was a problem on the second expedition down the river For the photographer to meet his deadline hed have to catch a train out of Massena not far from the eastshyern end of the flight Could I possibly fly him there The only landing place at Massena was a narrow sluiceway that supplied a dam for the wartime Alcoa aluminum plant

We touched down in the sluiceshyway with the bow into a fast-mOVing current an experience new to me I couldnt shut down the Jacobs to ofshyfload my passenger but I was able to crab sideways to a position alongside the steeply sloped bank holding the plane there with the running engine so he could jump ashore

Bill passed the photographers film and equipment to him and then slid back into the seat next to me I opened the throttle The floats were quickly planing in the strong curshyrent We were airborne in the Wacos shortest run ever as uniformed hosshytile guards ran to the scene with rifles and drawn pistols How this was exshyplained I never found out Counting up the days take that night was esshypecially pleasant ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

weslev Smith

Falling in love with aviation during the airmail pioneer days

bV Win Goulden Artwork by Edward Shenton from his book Couriers of t he Clouds published in 1930-37 by Macrae-smith Company

The mechanic advanced the throttle_ Oil spray encircled the open cylinder heads was

flung headlong over the fuselage and flashed past the massive dorsal fin The de Havilland pulsed with life poised on tiptoe struggling to rise from the chocks as the mechanic fed the coal to it then lapsed into a shudshyder when he throttled back

I was 10 years old and I was standshying at a point in time a marker in my life that had been designated for me I was standing on the tarmac of Hadley Field it was 1927 in Plainshyfield New Jersey and I was in love I was in love with aviation and more specifically I was in love with airmail pilots

These youthful heroes of my childshyhood with their Army-style brush haircuts their fur-lined boots and flyshying suits their weathered leather helmets and huge moon-like goggles nightly took the mail out of Hadley Field to Cleveland They navigated

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their de Havilland biplanes over the Allegheny Mountains relying on luck and a line of primitive beacons lodged on evil saw-toothed ridges to guide them to the general vicinity of that city

My first contact with an airmail pishylot came when my brother brought me to the home of Wesley Smith Wes stood 6 feet 4 and hit the marker at a solid 225 His hair was blue-black and he wore a thick bristly mousshytache to complement what was on top He had the word PILOT emshyblazoned on his forehead or so it seemed to me

So youre Winnie he rasped Well contact And he swept me up over his head turned me upside down for an instant and then grounded me safely at his feet

There Youve just soloed Howdja like that

He need not have asked I was enshythralled and from that moment on I was also in love with Wesley Smith

It was a strange and lasting relashytionship strange because of the difference in our ages yet lasting beshycause of our mutual love for aviation he as a performer and I as a favored page

I sit here now and I thread the projector of my memory and rerun the film once again

It is December 1930 and the temshyperature holds at 30 degrees I am with my brother at Wes home in New Brunswick New Jersey once more We are picking Wes up and driving him to Hadley Field He has drawn the Cleveland night run

We struggle into my brothers Nash and the ride from New Brunswick to Plainfield is less than comfortable for me until Wes murshymurs an expletive under his breath and hoists me to his lap I look up at him and I am directly under the classhysiC overhang of his moustache I can hear his voice resonate in his chest cavity as he booms his conversation

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Hadley lies out there in the black a few feeble smudgy flares outlinshying its boundaries There isnt much here for one to see in daytime a few terrified tin hangars crouched in a corner of a rolling meadow a couple of cannibalized fuselages But at night there is only a sickly beacon that pOints a tremulous finshyger into the darkness as it rotates the full 360 degrees

We pull up in front of one of the sliding panels Wes jumps out and pounds on the tin sheathing In the winter stillness the noise is shattershying

Axel he shouts Come on Come on

Slowly the doors slide apart and the most beautiful sight in the world stands before us

Wow says my brother I cannot speak Four brand-new Douglas biplanes

stand in a chorus line wingtip to wingtip their silver wings and Navy blue fuselages shimmering their burshynished wood propellers in contrasting hue their massive water-cooled enshygines with their protruding exhaust stacks grimacing at us

Far to the rear relegated to the outer shadows we see two old de Havilland Fives observing the scene jealously

Brand new Wes chortles Brand damned new and Im taking the first one out tonight

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We assemble in the pilots ready room with its six lockers each with a pilots name taped to the door I look at the names Smith Chandler Hill Ames

Ames But I thought Ames got killed Shut up my brother says savshy

agely and then he is instantly sorry My eyes fill with tears Wes puts a paw around me and I

am the center of their concern Yes Winfield he says with great

gentleness Ames was killed on this run

He looks at my brother and shrugs A look passes between them

But how He ran into a mountain over

Bellefon te There is a silence No one feels

comfortable Then there is a ripping sound as Axel tears Ames name off the locker door

Wes strips to his boxer shorts He pulls on a blue-veined set of long johns Then he pulls on a pair of thick-ribbed hockey socks which he rolls down just below the knee Over this goes a pair of olive drab Army trousers He tucks in a woolen Army shirt and finally covers all of this with fur-lined coveralls which sport a massive fleece collar He sweeps his helmet and goggles from the shelf and with much growling pulls them on

Now we wait Outside the mechanics have

wheeled the Douglas onto the tarmac in front of the hangar Huge wooden chocks are placed in front of each massive solid rubber tire One meshychanic mounts the toe steps to the cockpit and settles in his greasy forshyage cap looking somehow out of place even for a knights squire

Now from offstage comes a dinky little mail truck chuffing along in ridiculous contrast to the mastodon crouched above it A hastily lettered sign proclaims US MAIL and we see now that it is a converted delivshyery truck with the fish markets identity crudely obscured by the hasty paint job

My attention is suddenly dishyverted as I see six mechanics form a line hand in hand to the left of the propeller

Off and closed one shouts Off and closed comes a muffled

shout from the cockpit Contact Contact Then still hand in hand all six on

signal break into a dead run Each flashes by the propeller except for the last man He grabs the prop blade and his tug coupled with the weight and momentum of the others drags the blade in a clockwise whirl There is a seconds pause then a sharp bang Smoke belches from the exshyhaust stacks and the engine blasts

You cant hear us but we are all

-continued on page 27

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

Two very different approaches to telling which way the wind blows

you can build Windsocks are the ultimate in simple flight instruments Even though theyre at the top ofa post

somewhere on the airport I consider the sock to be one of my most often referred to instruments Even when its reduced to rags flapping lazily in the breeze the tattered remains still tell me someshything important

Here are two different approaches to building a windsock frame one requiring no machine tools at all and the other an exercise in lathe use and welding skill Whichever type you prefer pay attention to what it tells you as it points crosswise to your runway-it could save you from an embarrassing explanation as you avoid landing downwind - HG Frautschy

GREAT IDEA FOR A WINDSOCK By Robelt Shogren Sr

I wanted a windsock in the hopes that I might be able to fly out of a field across the street but the ones available for sale cost $ 70 or more Youve no doubt seen those S-gallon plastic pails that contain everything from pickles to plaster Out in the garage I had a spare pail and looking at it I thought If the bottom were cut out it would look sort of like a windsock After I removed the hanshydle I got out my saber saw and cut off the bottom (See the drawing) It was too heavy to turn easily so I cut it down so it was 9 inches from the mouth of the frame to the rear Then

I marked it so I could cut out four equal sections from the sides and leave four 2-inch sections or ribs on the sides each connected to a I-inch ring around the bottom That gave me a frame 12 inches in diameter at the mouth and 10-12 inches at the back

As originally made to reinforce the area where the bail attaches to the pail there are two layers of plasshytic I drilled a 38-inch hole through both sides and put in a 20-inch threaded rod with two I-inch brass sleeves located at the turning points where the bail used to be These bushings or sleeves are held in posishytion with a nut at the top and bottom

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-N - Plastic Washer

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5 Gallon Plastic Pail

Plastic Washers (Typical)

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48 Finished Length

1 Hem 10 Diameter

12 Diameter

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Nylon Windsock

and four plastic washers at the top and bottom I used several small round pieces of the sides I cut out earlier (I suggest a minimum of two or three washers at the top and botshytom so it will turn smoothly)

Now you get to practice your sewing skills Purchase a lightweight piece of nylon in red or orange big enough for a section 48 inches long and 38 inches wide Sew the sock with a 12-inch diameter opening on the front and a 9-12-inch opening at the rear Attach the sock to the rim of the frame in any way you like

Now that youve finished your sock take it outside and hold it up in the breeze neat eh

You can use anything for a poleshya piece of conduit and some hose clamps will work For mine I used an 8-foot piece of PVC pipe 1-12 inch diameter and two hose clamps to seshycure the threaded rod to the pol e Then you can set it in the lawn A piece of pipe that will slide onto the outside of the pole can be placed in a hole in the ground-the pole then can be easily removed Once up it worked just like one of the store- bought expensive models For a more permanent mounting drive a steel fence post in the ground and use two more hose clamps to attach the pole to it

EAAs Chuck Lars en welded his windsock pole to a large diameter steel wagon wheel so he can easily move it when his airstrip needs mowing

BAUKEN NOACKS EAA WINDSOCK By HG Frautschy

Robert Shogrens project is a great hardware-store and garage-scroungshying project No doubt many of you will come up with slightly different methods to modify the S-gallon pail

Windsocks are built in a special way particularly the frame Why is there a bail behind the frame Why not make it like a fish or butterfly net

By putting a shallow bail behind the frame the windsock is already open to catch the breeze and as long

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as the frame can pivot freely the windsock will react to wind direcshytion changes more quickly than one with a simple hoop to hold the windsock It also minimizes the likelihood the windsock will foul itshyself on the frame

At EAA headquarters were blessed with one of the most talshyented machinists Ive ever known Bauken Noack Bauken has conshystructed a number of windsocks for use on the EAA grounds and he consented to building us a new one for the VAA Red Barn

His windsock frame is conshystructed of steel (with an aluminum cap) and uses a pair of sealed ball bearings The slightest whisper of a breeze causes it to weather vane into the wind

Heres how Bauken built our windsock Well let the pictures tell the tale

(Right) Lets start with the bail and hoop for the windsock frame This happens to be an 18-inch diameter frame but this method would work for any frame size you choose If you choose to use a commercially availshyable windsock be sure to have it on hand before you start building the frame A steel tube hoop with an outside diameter of 18 inches was bent using a set of forming blocks on a hand-operated rotary tool The same tool was used to form the curved ends of the bail which simply overlap one anothshyer at the apex 16 inches inside the windsock

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(Left) A pair of crosspieces of the same tubing are used across the center of the hoop frame The center is cut away so the frame support made of a 5-inch long piece of 1-114-inch steel tube can be weldshyed in place Make certain the support is perpendicular to the frame or the frame may not rotate freely

A 3-1I2-inch long vertical support tube carshyries the pair of sealed ball bearings Both bearings are installed with a slight press fit Bauken chose to machine the inside of the tube so that each bearing was pressed into the tube until they contacted a shoulshyder The top bearing is installed flush with the top of the tube and the bottom is recessed 14 inch from the bottom proshytecting it from the weather The tube is welded to the center of the support tube Before welding drill a small hole in the center of the vertical tube to relieve air pressure for when you weld a cap on the opposite end of the frame support

The axle for the bearings also serves as the fitshyting for the units installation on a section of pipe Machined from a piece of 78-diameter steel bar stock the upper section is sized to fit the inside diameter of the bearings (in this case 0657 inch) and is drilled and tapped at the top with 14-20 threads In this case the unpainted portion of the axle is 3-14 inches long From the shoulder to the 7-12-by-1-1I2-inch handle (much handier than using a pipe wrench) is 3 inches and a 1-inch pipe thread fitting is weldshyed to the bQttom of the axle The cap at the top is machined from aluminum bar stock with a hole drilled in the center to accept a 14-20 stainless steel bolt Bauken also machined a slight recess in the inner portion of the hole so an O-ring could be slipped over the bolt after it passed through the cap The 0shyring keeps water from running down the bolt threads and corroding the steel axle A lock washer was used under the head of the bolt We added one thin stainless steel washer on the top of the axle after we found the cap binding slightly with the edge of the vertical support tube

Here it is completely assembled Karen Lamb sewed our new windsock from bright red nylon An 18-inch diameter windsock has a finished length of 70 inches To make it easy for the sock bull to be removed and installed Karen sewed hook and loop fasteners to the inner seams To do that she added 2-12 inches to the regular 2shyinch seam Karen prefers to make her windsocks using three panels sewn together Each panel is 20 inches wide tapering to 10 inches With 34shyinch seams on the long axis a 2-12-inch hem is used on each end The entire piece uses 14-inch wide zigzag stitching When fin ished the small end of the sock has an 8-inch diameter while the 18-inch diameter end has a circumference of 58 inches

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11

Vintage Aircraft Markings by HG Frautschy

YOure in the homestretch in your restoration project really making headway and about to

finish the painting when you realize you havent decided how youre goshying to layout the registration numbers How big do they need to be Where do they go What do the regulations say Youd have to look at Subpart C-Nationality and Regshyistration Marks under 4522 Exhibition antique and other airshycraft Special rules for the details For the part that concerns most of us it reads

1I(b) A small US-registered aircraft built at least 30 years ago or a US- regshyistered aircraft for which an experimental certificate has been issued under Sec 21191(d) or 21191(g) for operation as an exhibition aircraft or as an amateur-built aircraft and which has the same external configuration as an aircraft built at least 30 years ago may be operated without displaying marks in accordance with Secs 4521 and 4523 through 4533 if 11(1) It disshyplays in accordance with Sec 4521 (c) marks at least 2 inches high 011 each side of the uselage or vertical tail surshyface consisting of the Roman capital letter If Nil followed by

lThe US registration number of the aircraft or (ii) The symbol appropriate to the airworthiness certificate of the aircraft (C II standard IIRIII restricted IILII limited or IIX II experimental) folshylowed by the US registration number of the aircraft and (2) It displays no other mark that begins with the letter IINII anywhere on the aircraft unless it is the same mark that is displayed under paragraph (b)(1) of this section II

It goes on to explain what is needed if you wish to fly your 30shyyear-old or older airplane in an ADIZ or DEWlZ as well as in a foreign country

So What Does All This Mean

12 AUGUST 2001

Quite simply it allows you to put the same type of markings on your freshly restored antiq ue classic or contemporary aircraft that were inshystalled by the factory without having to deface or screw up an othshyerwise beautiful paint scheme It also means that you can build a replica of any of these aircraft and mark them as the manufacturers did when they were built with some small excepshytions (letters at least 2 inches high-remember the 2-inch dimenshysion is a minimum not the only size you can make the letters) Now none of this is recent news Weve had this agreement via the regulations for more than two decades EAA founder and Chairman of the Board Paul Poberezny kept working on this isshysue for 12 years with the FAA and the Antique Airplane Association was making its opinion known to the FAA as well

Still even after all these years we routinely receive calls stating My local FAA inspector says I have to have 12-inch numbers II Heres the straight skinny on that-you need 12-inch numbers ONLY if you plan to fly through an ADIZ or DEWlZ as well as in a foreign country Even then you can mark your aircraft with temporary 12-inch registration markings if youre planning on makshying that international trip or if you plan on transiting coastal airspace Adhesive tape that will not blow off is all that is required for your temposhyrary markings For a ircraft over 30 years of age that s the only time 12-inch numbers are required

One other note While you do have to put the registration marks on the fuselage or vertical tail surshyface (usually on the rudder or vertical fin) you dont have to put the large wing numbers on If your airplane was delivered with them and you want to be authentic you

certainly will want to do it but you dont have to as far as the FAA is concerned

Take a look at the photos included in this article for some explanation One of the first things you may noshytice is that many of the older antiques have registration markings that have more than the letter Nil included To make it easy for the loshycal inspector to approve here s an FAA memo Number N813061 dated December 31 1990 and penned by Dana D Lakeman who was the Acting Manager Aircraft Manufacturing DiviSion Aircraft Certification Service It reads in part

An antique aircraft or replica of an antique aircraft described in FAR 4522(b) may display the symbols appropriate to the airworthiness cershytificate of the aircraft as part of the nationality and registration marks under the aircraft as part of the nashytionality and registration marks under the regulation The capital letshyter Nil followed by eit her a C (standard) R (restricted ) L (limited) or X (experimental) folshylowed by th e US registration number of the aircraft When these marks are included with the nationshyality and registration marks they add to the authenticity of antique and amateur-built copies of antique airshycraft However if these symbols are added to the nationality and regisshytration marks displayed on the aircraft they do not become part of the official aircraft registration numbers II (Emphasis added)

This is exactly as spelled out previshyously in the regulations but there has been some confusion about the issue Most of it dealt with the fact that the official registration certifishycate issued by the FAA will not include the added mark since it is not part of the official registration This caused some heartburn with

Antiques certainly have some interesting markings This issome inspectors who had noted the Doug Fuss Laird Commercial

difference between the airplane and biplane built in 1926 Doug the FAA airworthiness and registrashy had carefully documented the

markings including photos tion certificates The memo was that showed h is exact airshy

intended to clarify this issue to the planes registration numbers FAA inspectors in the field The markings start with the

letter C before the additionAll of this means that if your airshyof the N was widespread

plane was built more that 30 years The C was assigned to all ago you can restore your airplane licensed commercial aircraft

the addition of the N wouldwith the exact same markings that have denoted one engaged in

were applied by the manufacturer foreign commerce Later the Now you can get out there and start N was required on all US

civil aircraft masking off your markings Youre almost done now

Heres a close-up of the markings you can use on the vertical tail of your antique classic or contemporary aircraft These happen to be larger than the minimum required by the FAA but thats simple to explain Thats the way they were done on the J-2 at the Piper factory The 2-inch dimension called out in the regulations is a minimum not an exact size The C can be added to your number if it was originally included even though its not part of your current registration

Twelve-inch numbers such as these are not required unless you plan to fly through an ADIZ or DEWIZ as well as in a foreign counshytry Even then you can mark your aircraft with temporary registration markings if youre planning on making that internationshyal trip or if you plan on transiting coastal airspace Adhesive tape that will not blow off is all that is required for your temporary markings By the way although the ICAO standards call for 12-inch numbers the United States and Canada have a gentleshymens agreement that allows Canadian airshycraft to enter the United States with 6-inch letters and wing markings while Canada will allow US aircraft at least 30 years old to enter with 2-inch numbers Even if youre using a custom color scheme on your restoration you can use the markings appropriate to when your airplane was The Fokker Dr1 replica from Cole Palens Old Rhinebeck collection is able to use small N numshybuilt In this Widgeons case a vertical stack bers under the horizontal tail since it is a replica of an aircraft built more than 30 years ago of 2-inch letters and numbers on the rudder (and how) In fact the markings do not have to feature much contrast would be acceptable Check with your type Antiques with markings like this are able to be marked as such under authorization of FAR club for the type and size of the markings 4522 (b)(1(i and ii) Since aircraft such as this are exempted from complying with FAR 4521 used on your aircraft when it was first built the registration can have ornamentation and it can also have little contrast with the backshy

ground

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13

14 AUGUST 2001

Marty Lochmans

experience as a military

aviation technician pays

offwhen he restores his

own Cessna 140

by HG Frautschy

I t should come as no surprise that an aviation professional restored this beautiful custom Cessna 140 but hes not one who does restorations for a living This is his

first civilian project like this Marty Lochman serves the military in two ways As an Air Force Reserve technician hes been a crew chief on an F-16 and he also flies for the Air Force Reserve as an air refueling boom operator Martys a second-generation Air Force man his late father Eugene served his nation as a jet engine mechanic and then later did similar work for American Airlines

While Eugene always intended to get both his pilots and meshychanics certificates the elder Lochman never accomplished those two feats but his son carried on the dream earning both Born in 1956 Marty grew up during the Cold War and saw the Air Forces constantly evolving series of jet aircraft When he started serving with the Air Force Reserve the aircraft for which he was responsible were known for their impeccable mainteshynance He thought nothing of spending a little extra time polishing the tail hook so brightly you could shave with the edge and use its mirror finish to check on your progress

Being fastidious about his own restoration came naturally given Martys talent and training He couldnt have started with

JIM KOEPNICK much more of a challenge After he learned to fly he wanted to buy a Cessna 172 but one ride in a friends Cessna 120 changed Martys mind Actually it rekindled something hed felt before

As a kid I thought that flying was supposed to be like that but Id never experienced it in a nosewheel-equipped airplane he recalled During a long cross-country while working on his commercial and his instrument rating he stopped in Conroe Texas There at Montgomery County Airport sat a tired 140 its tires flat with blistered paint on the instrument panel and no headliner in the cabin Writing down the N number Marty looked it up in the FAA registry and fired off a Do you want to sell letter to the owner

No was the curt reply Charlie Williams the Cessnas owner pondered the question

for four months and then wrote Marty a letter offering to sell it to him Charlie even went to the trouble of getting a ferry per-

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The overhead panel conceals a speaker behind the fabric and a rheostat to control the engine instrument lighting To the far left is the switch to control the flight instrushyment lighting and on the far right is a freshyquency flipflop switch linked to the comshymunications radio and the intercom onoff switch

mit since the airplane was out of anshynual but since Marty had no piloting experience in tailwheel airshyplanes he wisely chose not to fly the airplane home Instead he drove to Texas from his home in Newalla Oklahoma and on the bed of a trailer he hauled the tired Cessna to his garage

For a fellow handy in aviation sheet metal repair the 140 offered plenty of opportunity to practice his skills The wings had been metalized in 1959 and Marty didnt like what

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he saw lilt just looked pitiful he said I thought the fabric wing would give me better speed because its cleaner and lighter When youve metalized a fabric-covered wing you take away your ability to change the wash-in or wash-out of the wingshychanging the length of the rear strut has no effect with the wing riveted together I just wanted some flexibilshyity there

Marty installed a new pair of landingtaxi lights in a standoff framework he designed He didnt care for the regular installation method which bolts them directly to the spar

Plenty of sheet aluminum was changed on the airframe and a lot of the parts that were kept were reshymoved or disassembled cleaned and then reinstalled Marty recalled II Over the course of time I just started at one spot and worked all the way through Using the drill I took off everything I could

With the wings reworked to their original configuration he tackled the rest of the airframe l ended up re-skinning the bottom of the horishyzontal stabilizer the upper right stabilizer and I took the leading

Circuit breakers replaced fuses modern instruments replaced those that were worn out and a wood overlay panel adorns the custom instrument panel A pair of adjustable Cessna 150 seats were installed and to neatly illuminate the instruments a custom installashytion of fiber-optic lighting was performed (inset)

edges off and installed leadshying edge stiffeners that help increase the structural strength of the horizontal stabilizer

That wasnt the limit of his tail surface and other sheet metal repairs I had to make a repair on the bottom of the rudder I put a new nosebowl on it and installed new lower left and right cowl skins because mine were pretty much beat up

On one occasion Gary Rice who holds one of the STCs for the installation of a Continental 0shy200 in the 140 was over at Martys house looking at the airplane Gary pointed out that his cowlings were from two different model years If he wanted them to match he just hapshypened to have the correct upper cowl to match Martys 1946 lower cowl so they traded parts It pays to invite friends to look over your project

Two areas of Martys restoration get lots of attention from admirers The cockpit and engine compartshyments are expertly done Under the cowl theres a lot of precise work esshypecially the engine baffles His approach to installing the cowling and baffles bears repeating First he fits the cowling to the airplane and then he fits the baffles That may seem pretty obvious but often readyshymade baffles depend on excessive use of seal strips to fill in the gaps between the cowl and baffle While there has to be some room between the cowl and baffles for the engine to move during normal operations Marty wanted a tight set of baffles He took an original set of baffles that had the seal material removed and with the cowl mounted in place he

added strips of tape to fill in the gaps Then he carefully marked the places where the tape joined the cowling and cut his new baffles close to that mark Since theyre at ground zero as far as vibration is concerned Marty took extra care to be sure he didnt build in stress risers in each component of the baffles When a part had a bend such as the back section even 90-degree bends were made with a radius of at least 14 inch He used cut radii as large as 12 inch to prevent cracking because of stress risers induced by trimming parts too closely Forty-two parts make up the baffles and Precision Anodizing in Oklahoma City anshyodized all of the aluminum parts for the princely sum of $115

In keeping with his standards as a military aviation technician Marty took the time to add markings to each component and line in the enshygine compartment including each pass through the firewall

The cockpit was another place

MartyS attention to detail shone through Since he started the project 10 years ago the interior ABS plasshytic panels installed by him are no longer made by Texas Aeroplastics He spent six weeks fitting the various panels which inshyclude bezels for the Marty and Sharon Lachman Newalla Oklahoma

skylights an overhead conshysole for the speaker and a lightingradio control panel and headlineraft bulkhead panels

For paint Marty used a Martin Senour polyurethane acrylic enamel called Nitram sold through NAPA automotive stores All of it was shot in Martys garage in a paint booth built out of schedule 40 PVC pipe and plastic sheeting As you can see many parts had to be shot at least twice-first the color was appli ed then the rub-on markings were put in place on areas such as the firewall and instrument panel and then it was repainted with a clear coat to

protect the lettering Rich Nichols who works out of

his shop in Oklahoma City built the wood overlay on the panel Its two pieces of red oak that started out lshyinch thick Subsequent runs through a planer and the application of a router made a piece that fit exactly like the original sheet metal part Inshycluded in the overlay is a series of fiber-optic cables that route light from a central source to each of the instruments

Behind the panel each wire conshynection is soldered and covered with heat-shrink tubing and extensive

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very emotional After we broke ground and cleared the power lines I just started crying he said For 11 years it was just a bunch of parts and alshythough it became an airplane as it went toshygether it never was an airplane until that moshyment

Landing after 15 minshyutes he hopped out so his son Andrew could go for a ride and Marty saw his Cessna 140 fly for the first time He really wanted to share the moment with his supportive wife Sharon so he called her on the cell phone and held it up to the sky as the

Anywhere you look in the engine compartment you see the results of hours of painstaking labor by Marty Cessna made a low pass as he strove to create a truly custom showpiece Each of the lines is labeled as is each pass through the fireshywall A Continental 0-200 is installed in the 140 under an STC available from Gary Rice of Corpus Christi After getting insurance Texas

Leave it to the crew chief of a military aircraft to come up with a simple clever way to keep the upper cowl doors open Marty made a bent-to-shape piece of stainless steel tubing and installed it using two holes drilled in stiffeners riveted to the cowl doors and center section of the upper cowl A plastic cap keeps them from working out of the hole (see the engine comshypartment photo above) and it can be kept in the cowl during flight by pulling it out of the upper hole and laying it in a notch cut in the baffle

use of terminal blocks and circuit breakers bring the electrical system up to todays standards For modern day flying wherever he wants to go Marty installed a II morrow GX65 moving-map GPS a 760-channel communications radio and an intershy

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com along with an altitude-encodshying altimeter A 60-amp alternator is installed on the aft end of the Contishynental 0-200 engine

After 11 years of effort the first flight with his buddy Daryle Humphrey doing the honors was

through the Vintage Airplane Association proshy

gram administered by AUA Inc Marty got checked out and started putting as much time on the Cessna as he could with a goal of 200 hours by the end of the first year After that threshold his insurance premishyums would decrease and he could increase the level of coverage he had on the airplane

During his time in the airplane during 2000 he flew it to three flyshyins and took home top awards from the Vernon Texas event the Tulsa fly-in and the Cessna 120140 Assoshyciation annual convention at Gainesville Texas His flight to the 2001 Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In resulted in the Custom Grand Champion Classic award His dad Eugene would have been busting his butshytons with pride had he lived to see Marty complete the Cessna but he passed away in 1989 not too long after Marty brought it home Given his sons accomplishments up to that point Ill bet he went to his reshyward already very proud of his talented son Seeing this outstandshying custom Cessna would just be icing on an already sweet cake

by Budd Davisson

t Sun n Fun 2001 there were two very different Piper Clippers

parked side by side One was a glistening red beauty with the

look of an airplane that had had much time spent on it The

other was gray and a little frayed around the edges It looked as if it

had had a lot of time spent in it rather than on it VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Gilbert and Barbara Pierce fly The Red Lady while their son Steve owns the well-worn gray Piper Clipper Barbara and Gilbert along with Steve and his friend Cathy all came to Sun n Fun 2001 in their Clippers

The name tags on both airplanes identified them as being owned by a man named Pierce Gilbert Pierce of Germantown Tennessee owns the red airplane which he and his wife Barbara call The Red Lady The gray machine is owned by Steve Pierce Gilberts son from Graham Texas As different as the two airplanes are their stories are entwined as much as the story of a close father and son can be

Gilbert the elder Pierce was a cashyreer Navy man (an aviation radio technician) who stopped at airshyports constantly to watch the airplanes take off and land I was alshyways looking at little airplanes But I had three kids and was in the Navy so We all know the rest of that story

When he retired from the Navy he started on a second career by goshying to school to get a degree in mechanical engineering That cashyreer most of which was spent with Cummings Engine came to an end last May when he retired But back

20 AUGUST 2001

in 1989 his avocations took a 90-deshygree left turn when his wife Barbara surprised him with a Christmas gift he didnt expect She went out to the airport and found out how much it cost to get a license and paid for it She gave me my pilots license for Christmas Now what had been a dream became a reality

Barbara said When I got him the lessons I thought hed get his lishycense and that would be that Hed never talked about actually owning an airplane but as soon as he had his license he started talking about buying an airplane

Gil looked around but his natural ability to build things began to change his perspective He began to look at building an airplane which received his wifes blessing Someshyhow it just made sense to me that you could build an airplane cheaper than you could buy one she said

They decided the Kitfox made some sense so soon there was an airshyplane going together in their garage Besides she said I didnt want

him to have any regrets left in life and not building an airplane would have been a regret

Building things and taking stuff apart runs deep in the family His son Steve was heavy into cars while in high school which was good What was not good accordshying to Gilbert was that the youngster would wheel a car into their garage and take it apart and it would take them forever to get their garage back

We went away for a trip once Gilbert said and to make sure the kids didnt do anything in the garage I parked our car in there and took the keys with me so it couldnt be moved Barbara laughed as he told the story

We came home and when I threw the garage door open it was just like cockroaches scattering when the lights were turned on Kids and car parts started moving every direcshytion They had jacked up my car and took it out of the garage so they could move one of Steves friends

cars in to change the engineI Of course Gilbert can take some

blame for Steves mechanical bent When it came time for Steve to have a car of his own Gilbert bought an old Plymouth that had a bad engine He towed it into the garage and said to his son You want a car Theres the car therere the tools I and walked out

After Gil got his certificate he naturally started taking his kids for airplane rides and the aviation bug bit Steve really hard When he gradshyuated he went to Dallas to get his AampP certificate While we were doshying the dope and fabric part of the course I started hanging out around the Confederate Air Force (CAF) They were looking for volunteers to do fabric work so I jumped right inI

After he got his AampP certificate the CAF asked him if hed go to shows with them as a mechanic Then he went down to Graham Texas to help maintain and restore CAF airplanes based there In a short period of time he found himself working on warbirds full time at

Nelson Ezells well-known restorashytion shop in Breckenridge Texas

I worked for Nelson for about five years but decided it was time to move on so with Nelsons blessing I set up a shop of my own where I now maintain and rebuild everyshything from J-3s to a prop-jet Malibu It was about that time I started thinkshying about learning to fly and getting my own airplane When I talked about this Nelson always started talking about a Piper Clipper he had owned and what a great airplane it was He kept hounding me about the Clipper until I started looking for oneI He already knew the airshyplane fairly well because when hed been working at Graham there were four Clippers based there

Just as Gilbert had an effect on Steve Steve had an effect on his dad Because he talked so much about the Clipper Gilbert decided he had to have one too The great Clipper hunt was on

Steve found his airplane up in Utah It was a fishermans airplane that had no interior and the way it was described it sounded a little

doggy But it was a flyable airplane although it was out of license He had a friend look at it and found that it had been described accushyrately so we took a trailer up and brought it back down to Breckenshyridge

I wanted to learn to fly in the Clipper and it wasnt easy finding an instructor who would go along with that In fact after a bunch of lessons I was still having problems The instructor tried to talk me into learning in something easier I said I own a Clipper and Im going to learn to fly in it and that was that Then one day the lights came on and its been great ever since

I guess its a little bit like the cobshyblers kids Im so busy working on other peoples airplanes I dont have time to work on my own Not much anyway When I got it one wing wasnt painted so I took care of that but I still dont have the headliner in it

Mostly what I do is fly the airshyplane I finish work and tell my girl Im going to be out and I crank up the Clipper and head for the run-

piperS Little Four-Place Job By HG Frautschy

The Piper PA-16 was the first four-place version of the short-wing Piper seshyries of aircraft When directed to create the Piper PA-15 Vagabond from the start the Piper engineering staff had an expansion of the design in mind Howard Pug Piper could see there was still a place in the postwar market for a light inexpensive four-place airplane When in late 1947 they finally got the go-ahead to expand the Vagabond an added bay and door were added with a bench seal While at amaximum gross weight of 1650 pounds the Clipper powshyered by the 115-hp lycoming could cruise at112 mph Equipped with dual controls and abungee landing gear (the early Vagabond depended completely on the shock absorption capabilities of its Goodyear Airwheeltires and the skill of its pilo) the Clipper was just the ticket for the fellow who wanted to take along the

wife and kiddies Seven hundred thirty-six Clippers were built before the design became known as the Piper PA-20 Pacer partially due to the objections of Pan American Airways which held the trademarkcopyright to the Clipper name Piper had already been working on a revised version of their lightest four-place airplane so the name change was no big deal

The Piper PA-16PA-2022 series which induded the Tri-Pacer and its varishyants still remains one of civilian aviations most memorable designs More than 450 of the PA-16 Clippers remain on the FAA registry

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way Its so light just over 900 pounds that even with the stock 0-235 it really performs I take off out of there at max rate and whatever was bugshyging me during the day disappears I absolutely love slipping it around the corner to a landing It does it so well

At this point Steve has more than 1000 hours in the airshyplane so he definitely has been flying the wings off it

Gilbert took a little longer to find his airplane We looked at a few of them including one that was touted as an award winner he said and grinned Even as we walked towards the airplane we could see runs in the paint It was definitely not an award winshyner

Airplanes show up in the oddest places and Gilbert ran across a For Sale notice for a Clipper He called the owner and asked How long has it been for sale

The owner responded Two years

Of course that got Pierce conshycerned and then the owner added At least its been two years that Ive been telling my wife it was for sale

The airplane was described as a nine on the outside and a five on the inside So Gilbert hopped on a Northwest flight to Seattle looked at the airplane wrote a check and headed for home

He and Barbara flew the airplane for a while and then Steve came home for Christmas and started to help him do an annual which showed that the wings needed reshycovering The interior was 19S0s red and black Naugahyde which they didnt like so it was time to take the airplane apart and move it into the garage

The intent was not to re-cover the entire airplane but they were going to repaint it which meant stripping as much paint as possible Much of that fell to Barbara Getting the

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Gilbert bought an old

Plymouth that had a bad

engine He towed it into

the garage and said to

his son uYou want a

car Theres the car

there are the tools

and walked out

paint off was really tough but one day I stumbled into a secret I had been soaking rags in methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and letting them lay on the paint to soften it Then one day I forgot and went to lunch after putting the rags on I came back and the MEK had evaporated and the rags were stuck to the paint When I yanked the rags off every bit of paint under them came off right down to the silver From that point on thats how I stripped the paint

Steve said he now uses the same method to strip paint on the airshyplanes hes repairing or restoring in his business

While re-covering the wings Gilbert also took the opportunity to repair damage resulting from two different ground loops the airplane had suffered in the past

For a while both airplanes had the same llS-hp 0-235 Lycoming the Clippers came with during their single year of production in 1949 Then Gilbert and Barbara went to the Short Wing Piper Club convenshytion in Denver We took off and

we thought we d never get any altitude

Barbara said He had been talking for a long time about putting a lS0-hp engine in The Red Lady and after that takeoff I told him Go ahead and put the engine in Of course I didnt think to ask what that was going to cost

Youd think that having an AampP as a son would be a great advantage when it came time to build up an engine and to a certain extent it was Gilbert found his engine and shipped it down to his son to help him rebuild it When he walked into his sons shop Steve said You want an enshygine There are the parts there are the tools Someshything about payback time fits here

Steve laughed when he told the story It took him a while but he finally got it toshy

gether and it runs really well At the beginning Steves Clipper

would easily outperform his dads because it was so light He said he figures about 110 mph on 63 gph Now Gilberts can outclimb him and cruises at 117 to 120 mph on 78 gallons

Steve summed up both of their feelings about the airplanes when he said We always have old guys walk up to our airplanes and say I used to have a Clipper Man I wish Id never sold it Our airplanes arent for sale and never will be There is just too strong of an attachment there

Steve is now talking about putting an 0-320 Lycoming in his airplane too because he cant stand to see his dad outperform him Also the Short Wing Piper Convention is in Alaska this year and who knows what kind of terrain theyll be facing

The Short Wing Piper clan has a strong bond and nowhere is that bond stronger than between the fashyther and son short-Wing team of Gilbert and Steve Pierce

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

August Mystery Plane

by HG Frautschy

sions as depicted in the May issue of Vintage Airplane

Emil Cassanello Huntington Station New York

From overseas we received The May MystelY PLane is a version of

the Bristol Tourer which was an attempt to find a civilian use for the 1914-18 war swpLus Bristol Fighter (F2b) airframes There were four variants the type 27 with an enclosed cabin for one passenger type 29 with an open cockpit for one passhysenger type 28 with an enclosed cabin for two passengers side by side and type 47 with an open cockpit for two These numbers were allocated in 1923 The enshygine used was a 240-hp Siddeley Puma

My two-vo Lume copy of British Civil Aircraft 1919-1959 (Putnam) refers to eight type 28 Tourers going to Ausshytralia and others to Belgium and Spain but there is no mention of saLes to the United States

A paralel more highly modified deshyvelopment is refe rred to as having multi-disc Ferodo brakes These must have been effective because the undercarshyriage was fitted with a skid to prevent nose-overs

This months Mystery Plane is a rare metal plane from the post-World War II era

Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than September 15 for inclusion in the November issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vintageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address (especially your city and state) in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

The times certainly are changing For our May Mystery Plane only one of our answers was sent via the regushylar mail with the rest all coming in over the electronic transom Heres our first answer

Designed by Capt Frank Barnwell

the May Mystery Plane is a Bristol F2b the best allied two-seat fighter in World War I Lt AE McKeever of No 11 Squadron RAF shot down 30 aiplanes almost all with the BristoL Fighter After the war the British amp Colonial Aeroshyplane Co Ltd (Bristo l) produced a number of passenger-carrying conver-

Bristol Tourer I

Gordon Hughesdon Addlestone Surrey United Kingdom Other correct answers were reshy

ceived from Arnie Roosa West Chicago Illinois Dave Dent Camshyden New South Wales Australia V Jay Broze Seatt le Washington and Brian R Baker Farmington New Mexico

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How we complied with American Champion AD2000 25middot02

How we complied with American get into the mind-set to do some real Champion AD2000-2S-02 scrunching and neck bending If we

Inspection requirements inspect had charged ourselves the shop rates the entire length of the front and of today the labor alone would be rear spars for cracks compression over $1200 plus the supplies We cracks longitudinal cracks through blew a bunch of bucks on the the bolt holes or nail holes or loose or missing rib nails

Thats the way the AD reads in part but that is the main gist of it So Dip Davis and I went at it

How did we do it First we reshysearched an alternate method that was more to our liking than poking a bunch of holes in the upper surface of the wing We used the approved Citabria Owners Group Wing Spar Inspection Letter version 1-02-7-29shy99 but we enhanced it a little as you shall see Well tell the tale using photos

If youre planning this operation

borescope and Bend-a-Light too so it wasnt cheap or easy but its comshypleted and now

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After checking the paperwork we lined up the tools to do the job A Bend-a-Light Pro a mirror wedges a flanging tool a load of inspection rings a few inspection plates tapes fabric cement dope methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) silver sandpashyper and some almost-matching paints We even invested in a very expensive borescope and its magnifying fiber optics which helped in some areas not too easily seen with just the mirror and the Bend-a-Light

Next to facilitate access without undue back strain and neck stretching we put the old Champ up on her nose This made the top of the wing easily accesshysible with a step stool and the bottom easy to get at for the installation of the inspection rings and the subsequent inspection

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Once the left wing was done I moved to the right side to repeat the process while Dip the fabric man began to tape and re-cover the hole we had made

Dip insisted and I agreed that the critical area would be the juncture of the strut attachment to the front spar along with the fitt ings so we started there We slit the fabric on the top of the wing to gain access trimmed back 1-12 inches of the leading edge metal re-flanged it and cleaned the top of the spar with MEK Then using our bifocals a near-vision enhancer (magnifying glass) and the mirrors we began the inspection process We could reach 20 inchshyes on either side of the strut attach fitting A good place to start

After the inspection of the right side was completed we moved to the underside of the wing Using the inspection holes we soon found we couldnt really inspect the spar to our satisfaction without additional access Some calculashytions resulted in new inspection rings and holes being installed every 39 inches at both the front and rear spars With considerable neck craning and scrunching we were able to reasonably assure that the inspection was completshyed and the spars were intact free of cracks and airworthy Now came the work that took the most time Since this is a Model 7 and it has less than 90 hp this is a one-time inspection We had cemented the inspection rings in place and cut the holes and now we decided that installing inspection plates was unnecessary We cut big circle patchshyes out of fabric and just covered up the inspection holes rings in place just in case we ever have to go in again

The next task is tedious-dope sand silver sand and try to match the color All this takes time The dope must be dry before sanding and the silver has to be used to fill When the final coats of not-quite-the-same-color went on the finished product sure looked like a well-worn very-patched Champ There was the assurance though that we had an airworthy flying machine I couldnt help but be a little disshymayed at the appearance so we stenciled the leading edges of the wing with letshytering that spelled outAD complied with and the new name on the cowl ing says it all

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cheering Then the engine falters and begins to sputter We groan But then it catches to a full-throated roar which this time stays constant We are home free The mechanic eases the throttle back and the engine ticks each revolution causing the plane to shake with expectancy like a bronco in the chute

Wes slaps my brother on the back cuffs me gently and shrugs into his parachute harness Then he is out the door hoisting his chute pack up against his back side as he waddles clumsily toward the plane Halfway out the floodlights pick him up Boosted by the mechanic he mounts the toe steps swings one leg and then the other into the cockpit and settles in with a mighty whoosh The mechanic drops off the lowest step and high-tails it for the hangar Two others flit in behind the knifing prop and snap the chocks away

Wes twists in the cockpit and looks our way With his helmet strapped under his chin and his gogshygles down he is a grotesque gargoyle He raises his arm and for the first time we see a long white scarf snapshyping in the slipstream

He guns her and the plane begins to move Slowly applying a little more throttle he inches her off the tarmac and onto the grass The wings rock crazily when he hits the rough He opens her up a little more and taxis out past the flare pots and then suddenly he is gone in the darkness

We hear him applying short bursts of power as he fishtails gently from side to side so he can see the flare markers which will indicate to him where he is to turn about and begin his takeoff run There is a pause He is turning 45 degrees now and will run up the engine

There it is We hear the engine sound rise higher as the rpms inshycrease He is checking the mags Right mag okay Left mag okay Now the noise suddenly drops He is turning lining himself up for the takeoff run And then we hear it Full power Balls out The sound of the US Air Mail

The sound builds and builds but we still cant see him Then for a frozen instant he flashes through the floodlights a few feet off the ground pulls up sharply and is gone with the twinkling exhaust the only evidence that he was ever here

Wes made it to Cleveland that night and many nights after that He was the last of the old Hadley pilots and he finally surrendered to the Douglas DC-3 forerunner of every airliner in the world and a plane he grew to love In 1936 he survived a crash in Chicago that left him with a twisted arm grounded him permanently and broke his spirit and his heart

I remember our last reunion It took place in 1942 and I was an Army Air pilot with brand new shiny wings just graduated and the most dangerous of all pilots because I knew everything

Wes was sitting alone in the halfshydarkness of his den when I came in

He looked tired and there were dark rings around his eyes that he didnt get from an open cockpit He hadnt flown in six years and his face and body showed it A part of him had died

We talked about flying far into the night and we got more than a little drunk but his eyes were on fire and he knew exactly what he was saying He asked me thousands of questions about power settings flaps glide rashytios aerobatics and God knows what else

Then it was time for me to go He grabbed my hand in what once had been a great paw and looked into me Good luck Winfield come back

Yes I wont be here he said I know I replied I had to leave him there in the

half-light of his den He was gone by 1945 when I came home after servshying as an assault glider pilot

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800-843-3612














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Madison NC




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AUAis

~ approved

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800-843-3612














UNLIMITED AGENCY

BETTER IDEA 28

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- 38 Threaded Rod

48 Finished Length

1 Hem 10 Diameter

12 Diameter


Nylon Windsock










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10 AUGUST 2001





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AUAis

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UNLIMITED AGENCY

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14 AUGUST 2001

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22 AUGUST 2001





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22 AUGUST 2001





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16 AUGUST 2001



















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1 8 AUGUST 2001






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20 AUGUST 2001

























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22 AUGUST 2001





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22 AUGUST 2001





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24 AUGUST 2001





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22 AUGUST 2001





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24 AUGUST 2001





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22 AUGUST 2001





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24 AUGUST 2001





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