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GEOFF ROBISON PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION
Its EAA AirVenture time Its here For aviators around
the globe the month of july always brings EAA AirVenture Oshkosh to mind Most every one of these aviators will wish he or she were going to be able to attend but for varied reasons many are never able to make it Heres hoping this is the year for you I still remember my first EAA convention in 1984 So far I have not missed a single Oshkosh since my first and each of them has been very enjoyable But some members are not as fortunate as J am in being able to come to this great event every year Even if you can get here only once you really owe it to yourself to experience this amazing celebration of the Spirit of Aviation
One of the great benefits of membership is the opportunity to serve your fellow members as a Vintage volunteer during EAA AirVenture So as we typically do each year in july heres a partial list of names and contact information for many of the volunteer chairpersons for the Vintage area of operations Want to rev up your visit by installing some extra horsepower to yo ur Oshkosh experience just drop these folks a line and they wi ll fill you in on these varied volunteer opportunities Hope to see yo u around the Red Barn
Please do us al l the favor of inviting a fri end to join the VAA and help keep us the strong association we have all enjoyed for
so many years now VAA is about participation Be a
member Be a volunteer Be there Lets all pull in the same
direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together join us and have it all
Vintage Aircraft Association Chairpersons
Convention Management Geoff Robison Chairman
chief7025 ao l com 219-493shy4724
Butch joyce Vice-Chairman windsockaol com 336-427-0971
Convention Management Field Operations
George Daubner Vice-Cha irman gdaubnereaaorg 414-673-5885
VAA JudgingAwards Dave C lark VAA C hi ef judge
davepdiquestnet 317-839-4500 Computer Operations Earl Nicholas Cha irman eman4
ameritechnet 312-451 -2930 Construction andMaintenance Michael Blombach Chairman
m ichaeI846aolcom 260-745shy2339
Headquarters Sales Ruth Co ul son Chairman
rcoulson516cscom 616-624shy6490
Headquarters Information Activities
jeannie Hill Chairman 815-943shy7205
MembershipChapter Info Dave Bennett Chairman antiquer
inreachcom 916-645-8370
Merchandise Bob Lum ley Chairman lumper
execpccom 262-782-2633 Metal Forming Workshop Steve Nesse Chairman stnes2009
Iivecom 507-373-1674 Parking and Safety Michael Kosta Chairman cubflyr
comcastnet 303-673-9355 Participant Plaques jack Copeland Chairman
copelandl jul1ocom 508-393shy4775
Past Grand Champions Steve Krog Chairman sskrogaol
com 262-966-7627 Safe Flying Ken Morris Cha irma n
taildragger7waol com 815-547shy3991
Security Tim Fox Chairman tim
f l yingshepherdscom 260-486shy8126
Tall Pines Cafe Steve Nesse Chairman stnes2009
Iivecom 507-373-1674 Tonys Trolley jim Brown Chairman 414-895shy
6282 Tour Tram james LeFevre Chairman 920-434shy
1656 Type Club Headquarters Steve Krog Chairman sskrogaol
com 262-966-7627 Volunteer Center Steve Moyer Chairman 215-514shy
1855 Volunteer - Hospitality Center Lorraine Eber le Vice-C h airman
920-233-2324
yu VOL 37 NO7 2009
CONTENTS I Fe Straight amp Level
Its EAA AirVenture time by Geoff Robison
2 News
6 The Vintage Aircraft Association Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little by Charles W Harris
9 It All Started With Dads Airplane The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection by Budd Davisson
1 5 N90 Tango Tango to Oshkosh The vintage AirVenture experience by Mike Sheetz
20 The McBride C-150TD A family project by Budd Davisson
26 The Vintage Mechanic Adhesives and bonding Part II by Robert G Lock
34 Mystery Plane by HG Frautschy
36 Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation by Sparky Barnes Sargent
38 Aeromail
39 Classified Ads
COVERS FRONT COVER One of the best reasons to choose a project airplane can be its history
with your family that same reason can cause your judgment to be clouded when it comes
to the projects viability When it was discovered his newly pu rchased C-170A was a frosty
caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion Steve Jake Jacobson just
couldn t say No and so an extensive restoration of this classic was done and it was
selected as the Grand Champion Classic of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 EAA photo by
Mike Steineke
BACK COVER There are five McBrides and they all had a hand to one extent or another
in the creation of this modified Cessna 1500 Just saying youre going to convert a 150
to a taildragger sounds like its easy but it s not There is a lot of work that has to be
done and a lot of parts to be chased See Budd Davissons article on the McBride fami ly
project starting on page 20 EAA photo by Bonnie Kratz
STAFF EAA Publisher Tom Poberezny Director of EAA Publications Mary Jones Executive DirectorEditor HG Frautschy ProductionSpecial Project Kathleen Witman Photography Jim Koepnick
Bonnie Kratz Advertising Coordinator Sue Anderson Classified Ad Coordinator Lesley Poberezny Copy Editor Colleen Walsh Director of Advertising Ka trina Bradshaw
Display Advertising Representatives Specialized Publications Co US Eastern Time Zone-Northeast Ken Ross 609-822-3750 Fax 609-957-5650 kr40comcastnet
US Eastern Time Zone-Southeast Chester Baumgartner 727-532-4640 Fax 727-532-4630 cbauml1 1mindspringcom
US Central Time Zone Gary Worden 800-444-9932 Fax 816-741-6458 gary wordenSpc-magcom
US Mountain and Pacific Time ZonesJohn Gibson 916-784-9593 Fax 510-217-3796 iohngibsol1Spc-magcom
Europe Willi Tacke Phone +49(0)1716980871 Fax +49(0)8841 496012 willilyillg-pagescom
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Rare Pitcairn Autogiro Arrives for AirVenture
Around this time last year Jack and Kate Tiffany of Spring Hill Ohio and the crew of Leading Edge Restorashytions were anticipating the flight of their recently restored Pitcairn PA-18 Autogiro to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2008 However the rotor blades were significantly damaged during testing about a week prior to Oshkosh and the flight had to be called off
That made the arrival of the PA-18 that much sweeter as the 77-year-old rotorcraft landed safely at EAAs Pioneer Airport on Wednesday June 24 2009 in plenty of time for this years convention A total of 19 Pitcairn PA-18s were built from 1932-1933 and this one the result of nearly a decade-long restoration represents the only flying example left in the world
The last leg of the journey to Pioneer Airport was from the Hartford Wisconsin airport about 38 nautical miles south of Oshkosh With just a hint of emotion in his voice Jack remarked as the gyro took off on the final leg from Hartford Wisconsin Its unreal [to see it depart] 40 miles from Oshkosh after nine years its unreal
Plans are for the aircraft to be displayed at-where else-Pioneer Airports Pitcairn Hangar until right before AirVenture then it will be relocated to the Vintage area on convention grounds for static display throughout the week For more on the arrival of the Autogiro along with a video clip of it in flight visit www AirVentureorg and click on the Multimedia link
After AirVenture the PA-18 will return to the Pitcairn Hangar for display through August Andrew King pishylot may even fly the Autogiro in EAAs Good 01 Days of Aviation event scheduled for August 29-30 before deshyparting to the airport in Brodhead Wisconsin and then back to Spring Hill Ohio
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West Side-Vintage Aircraft ~
Camping
() Hangar Row 74 Cafe
(~ Theater ) InThe
1) Woods
Antique Parking Vj) V ( ( r Type Clubs
~ () Workshops
VAA AREA
GENERAL LAYOUT
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D t t J em ers Ip ootR egis ra Ion gt --______
Volunteer Booth
Past Grand Champions - parked along road Wayfinding Tower ~ Ta ll Pines Cafeshy o VAA and in rows 60 amp 61Near Ultralight Runway Operations
Shack
VAA Special Interest Aircraft
VAA Parking- shy Display DArea
Row 62 through Row 77 No Ca mping
CommCenter
Rows 60 Row 50 ~ Row 78 amp 61
East Side VAA Camping and Parking Starts HereshyCont inues to Row 150 R C6lO9
To help members who fly in to understand the layout of the convention area administered by the VAA weve prepared this simplified map As you can see camping starts at Row 74 on the east side of the main northsouth road (Wittman Road) with the areas to the north of that line set up to handle display-only vintage aircraft Thats why you may see open areas as you taxi south to your camping location
Once you arrive youll need to register your aircraft andor campsite In addition to roving registration veshyhicles there is one main aircraft registration building 10shy
cated just south of the VAA Red Barn (see map) The EAA convention campgrounds are private campgrounds and are not open to non-EAA members Each campsite must be registered by a current EAA member
Another immediate benefit of VAA membership is your free VAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 Participant Plaque which you can pick up in the rear of the Red Barn EAA and VAA memberships are available at both aircraft registration and at the membership booth located under the VAA Welcome Arch northeast of the Red Barn at the corner of Wittman Road and Vern Avenue
Flight Planning for Your EAA AirVenture Trip
As an EAA m ember (an im porshytant part of your VAA m embershyship) you can use the EAA Flight Planner to chart your trip to Witshytman Field for EAA AirVenture Osshyhkosh 2009 Just click on the EAA Flight Planner link on the left side of the members-only home page at httpMem bersEAAorg or you can log in at www VintageA ircraftorg
Grass Runways and Fuel Also o n ou r VAA web sit e we
p ubli sh a li st crea t ed b y VAA
m ember Kris Kortokrax Kris flies a variety of old biplanes
that are more pleasant to fly when they are flown from grass strips and he and his buddies from Shelbyville Illinois do their best to keep the old biplanes happy (and keep tire wear to a minimum) by flying crossshycountry fro m grass st rip to grass strip Finding fuel facilities can be a challenge these days and Kris has distilled th is airport information to be useful for like-minded grassshyrunway-preferring pilots Th is data was current as of the beginning of the year and wed suggest calling
ahead to confirm fuel availability and hours of operation If you have any changes or additions drop us an e-mail here at VintageAircraft eaaorg and well forward it to Kris
Our thanks to Kris for sharing his list Let us know if you find it useful
Breakfast and a Briefing The VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be
in operation again this year with an expanded schedule prior to convention and fly-in-style panshycake and egg breakfasts during EAA AirVenture Starting on Friday morning July 24 and continu-
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ing through Sunday July 26 the VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be open for breakfast (630 - 930 am) and dinner (430 - 730 pm) Startshying Monday July 27 only breakshyfast will be served at the Tall Pines Cafe (630 - 930 am) Just to the north an FAA Flight Service Stashytion (FSS) trailer will be located near the cafe At the trailer youll be able to check the weather for your flight and obtain a full briefshying from FSS specialists withshyout having to trek up to the FAA Building near the control tower Well see you there each morning for breakfast and a briefing
Are You a Friend of the VAA Red Barn
If so be sure to check in at the information desk at the VAA Red Barn There well issue you a speshycial name badge We can also pOint out the location for the Ford TrishyMotor rides If you have any quesshytions feel free to ask for Theresa Books the VAA administrative asshysistant If you need to reach her in advance of your arrival call her at EAA headquarters 920-426-6110
Our thanks to each of you who have contributed to the VAA Friends of the Red Barn 2009 camshypaign Well have the list of conshytributors in the September edition of Vintage Airplane
VAA Message Center If you would like to leave a messhy
sage for people you know who freshyquent the VAA Red Barn stop by the information desk You can write them a message in our noteshybook on a string and well post their name on the marker board so theyll know theres a message waitshying for them Sure cellular phones and walkie-talkies are great but sometimes nothing works better than a hand-scribbled note
VAA Picnic Tickets for the annual VAA picnic
to be held Wednesday July 29 at the Nature Center will be available for sale at the VAA Red Barn Tick-
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ets must be purchased in advance so we know how much food to order The delicious meal will be served afshyter 530 pm Trams will begin leavshying the VAA Red Barn around 5 pm and will make return trips after the picnic Type clubs may hold their annual banquets during the picnic Call Jeannie Hill (815-943-7205) and she will reserve seating so your type club can sit together
Shawano Fly-Out The annual fly-out to Shawano
is Saturday August 1 The sign-up sheet will be at the desk at the VAA Red Barn and the briefing will be at 7 am the morning of the flyshyout The community of Shawano approximately an hour north of Oshkosh (as the Cub flies) is a big supporter of VAA and puts forth a lot of effort to sponsor this event Shawanos residents do a great job of hosting us and we hope youll help us thank Shawano by joining us on the flight
VAA Red Barn Store The VAA Red Barn Store chockshy
full of VAA logo merchandise and other great gear will be open with expanded hours all week long Monday through Saturday 8 am until 6 pm Early-bird arrivals can shop on the previous weekend as well during limited hours Show your VAA membership card (or your receipt showing you joined VAA at the convention) and youll receive a 10 percent discount
One evening during AirVenture there will be a special VAA memshybers-only sale Inquire at the store for the date Bring your VAA card and youll receive an additional discount on specially priced mershychandise See you there
VAA Volunteer Opportunities Are you an ace pancake flipper
If youre not one yet we can help The VAA Tall Pines Cafe is looking for volunteers who can help provide a hearty breakfast to all the hungry campers on the south end of Wittshyman Field If you could lend a hand
for a morning or two wed apprecishyate it If thats not your cup of tea feel free to check with the VAA Volunteer Center located just to the northeast of the VAA Red Barn The volunshyteers who operate the booth will be happy to tell you when your help is needed each day It doesnt matter if its just for a few hours or for a few days-wed love to have your helpshying hands There is no need for you to contact us ahead of time you can talk with us when you arrive
VAA Judging Categories and Awards
The VAAs internationally recogshynized judging categories are
- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945
- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955
- Contemporary January I 1956 - December 31 1970
Any aircraft built within those years is eligible to park in the Showshyplane parking and camping areas If you wish to have your aircraft judged let the volunteer know when you register your aircraft and camping area If you want your aircraft to be judged by VAA volshyunteer judges you need to be a curshyrent Vintage Aircraft Association member VAA contributes a signifshyicant portion of the costs related to the EAA awards that are preshysented to the award winners The Awards Ceremony will be held Satshyurday evening at 6 in the new Vinshytage Hangar - not in Theater in the Woods as in previous years
Designated Smoking Areas Near Flightline
Smoking on the flightline at EAA AirVenture is prohibited because its a hazard to all aircraft There are several deSignated smoking areas with butt cans along the flightline well away from aircraft and refuelshying operations
DeSignated smoking areas will be south of the ultralight runway near the Hangar Cafe near the Warbirds area (northeast corner of
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A Night at the Movies With EAA Fly-In Theater Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and watch a great aviation movie at the
EAA Fly-In Theater presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilshyton Watches Movies are shown nightly from Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1 and each film is introduced by a celebrity presenter The theater is loshycated just north of EAAs Camp Scholler at the end of Doolittle Drive and the proshygram begins at 830 pm
Heres the lineup of movies along with the guest presenters who have been confirmed
Sunday July 26 One Six Right (presenter TBD)
and Barnstorming presented by Paul Glenshaw and Andrew King
Monday July 27 The Right Stuff (presenter TBD)
Tuesday July 28 Cloud Dancer presented byTom Poberezny and friends
Wednesday July 29 Six Days Seven Nights presented by Harrison Ford
Thursday July 30 Bat2 1 (presenter TBD)
Friday July 31 X-1S presented by Joe Engle
Saturday August 1 Pearl Harbor (presenter TBD)
Audrey Lane and Eide Avenue) the Wearhouse flag pole area the shade pavilion north of the control tower and near the Ultralight Barn Loshycations will be indicated on EAAs free convention grounds map The admission wristband also instructs visitors that smoking is allowed only in deSignated smoking areas
EAA AirVenture Is Almost Here Are You Ready
Just a few short weeks from now many of you will make the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh for EAA AirshyVenture 2009 Are you ready Here are several handy online tools on the newly redesigned AirVenture website
Visit wwwAirVentureorg and find out what you need to know about The Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration
Admission Parking Hours wwwAirVentureorgplanningadmisshy
sionhtml
Find or Share a Ride to Oshkosh wwwAirVentureorgrideshare
Site Map wwwAirVentureorgplanning
AV2009grounds_mappdf Quick reference guide of new site
layout wwwAirVentureorgsiteplan guidechangeshtml
AirVenture Schedule wwwAirVentureorgschedule
Where to Stay wwwAirVentureorgplanningwhere_
to_stayhtml
AirVenture NOTAM wwwAirVentureorgflying
Alternate Airports and Waypoints
wwwAirVentureorgflyingaltershynate_airportshtml
wwwAirVentureorg2008 news08060S--presentationshtml
Put more than a thousand preshysentations workshops and other scheduled events at your fingertips
Find Your Favorite Presentations and Workshops Online
With hundreds of the worlds leading aviation authorities givshying close to 1000 individual preshysentations at nearly 4S locations spread throughout the AirVenture grounds finding out who is preshysenting where and when can be in a word challenging The EAA AirVenture website has an online tool that can make this task simshyple when you use the integrated AirVenture Schedule
Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
A quick link to this new schedshyule is wwwAirVentureorgschedule
A brand-new groundbreaking feature this year is the ability to creshyate your own itinerary of various events of interest You can save or print it out for future reference
The online schedule will now make it easier for you to find preshysentations book signings activishyties movies and other events at every venue on the site
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
e The VAA has 19 local chapters continued on page 32
MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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Cribbage Boards Handcrafted from wood they include game instructions pegs cards and historic information about the plane Game board can be removed from airplane for playing Nieuport28C1 52652955 $14900 Spruce Goose 52652956
Mens Cotton Golfshirt Green with Tan details V13340 S $31 95 V13341 M $31 95 V13342 L $31 95 V13343 XL $31 95 V13344 2X $31 95 Charcoal Grey with white details V0778 M $3299 V07788 L $3299 V07789 XL $3299 V07790 2X $3599 Black with Red details V13301 S $31 95 V13302 M $31 95 V13303 L $31 95 V13304 XL $31 95 V13305 2X $31 95
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
e The VAA has just completed a new large one-of-a-kind Type Club and workshopmeeting and disshyplay facility on Wittman Field for the benefit of vintage aircraft type clubs of the nation
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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CONTENTS I Fe Straight amp Level
Its EAA AirVenture time by Geoff Robison
2 News
6 The Vintage Aircraft Association Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little by Charles W Harris
9 It All Started With Dads Airplane The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection by Budd Davisson
1 5 N90 Tango Tango to Oshkosh The vintage AirVenture experience by Mike Sheetz
20 The McBride C-150TD A family project by Budd Davisson
26 The Vintage Mechanic Adhesives and bonding Part II by Robert G Lock
34 Mystery Plane by HG Frautschy
36 Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation by Sparky Barnes Sargent
38 Aeromail
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COVERS FRONT COVER One of the best reasons to choose a project airplane can be its history
with your family that same reason can cause your judgment to be clouded when it comes
to the projects viability When it was discovered his newly pu rchased C-170A was a frosty
caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion Steve Jake Jacobson just
couldn t say No and so an extensive restoration of this classic was done and it was
selected as the Grand Champion Classic of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 EAA photo by
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BACK COVER There are five McBrides and they all had a hand to one extent or another
in the creation of this modified Cessna 1500 Just saying youre going to convert a 150
to a taildragger sounds like its easy but it s not There is a lot of work that has to be
done and a lot of parts to be chased See Budd Davissons article on the McBride fami ly
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Rare Pitcairn Autogiro Arrives for AirVenture
Around this time last year Jack and Kate Tiffany of Spring Hill Ohio and the crew of Leading Edge Restorashytions were anticipating the flight of their recently restored Pitcairn PA-18 Autogiro to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2008 However the rotor blades were significantly damaged during testing about a week prior to Oshkosh and the flight had to be called off
That made the arrival of the PA-18 that much sweeter as the 77-year-old rotorcraft landed safely at EAAs Pioneer Airport on Wednesday June 24 2009 in plenty of time for this years convention A total of 19 Pitcairn PA-18s were built from 1932-1933 and this one the result of nearly a decade-long restoration represents the only flying example left in the world
The last leg of the journey to Pioneer Airport was from the Hartford Wisconsin airport about 38 nautical miles south of Oshkosh With just a hint of emotion in his voice Jack remarked as the gyro took off on the final leg from Hartford Wisconsin Its unreal [to see it depart] 40 miles from Oshkosh after nine years its unreal
Plans are for the aircraft to be displayed at-where else-Pioneer Airports Pitcairn Hangar until right before AirVenture then it will be relocated to the Vintage area on convention grounds for static display throughout the week For more on the arrival of the Autogiro along with a video clip of it in flight visit www AirVentureorg and click on the Multimedia link
After AirVenture the PA-18 will return to the Pitcairn Hangar for display through August Andrew King pishylot may even fly the Autogiro in EAAs Good 01 Days of Aviation event scheduled for August 29-30 before deshyparting to the airport in Brodhead Wisconsin and then back to Spring Hill Ohio
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Past Grand Champions - parked along road Wayfinding Tower ~ Ta ll Pines Cafeshy o VAA and in rows 60 amp 61Near Ultralight Runway Operations
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East Side VAA Camping and Parking Starts HereshyCont inues to Row 150 R C6lO9
To help members who fly in to understand the layout of the convention area administered by the VAA weve prepared this simplified map As you can see camping starts at Row 74 on the east side of the main northsouth road (Wittman Road) with the areas to the north of that line set up to handle display-only vintage aircraft Thats why you may see open areas as you taxi south to your camping location
Once you arrive youll need to register your aircraft andor campsite In addition to roving registration veshyhicles there is one main aircraft registration building 10shy
cated just south of the VAA Red Barn (see map) The EAA convention campgrounds are private campgrounds and are not open to non-EAA members Each campsite must be registered by a current EAA member
Another immediate benefit of VAA membership is your free VAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 Participant Plaque which you can pick up in the rear of the Red Barn EAA and VAA memberships are available at both aircraft registration and at the membership booth located under the VAA Welcome Arch northeast of the Red Barn at the corner of Wittman Road and Vern Avenue
Flight Planning for Your EAA AirVenture Trip
As an EAA m ember (an im porshytant part of your VAA m embershyship) you can use the EAA Flight Planner to chart your trip to Witshytman Field for EAA AirVenture Osshyhkosh 2009 Just click on the EAA Flight Planner link on the left side of the members-only home page at httpMem bersEAAorg or you can log in at www VintageA ircraftorg
Grass Runways and Fuel Also o n ou r VAA web sit e we
p ubli sh a li st crea t ed b y VAA
m ember Kris Kortokrax Kris flies a variety of old biplanes
that are more pleasant to fly when they are flown from grass strips and he and his buddies from Shelbyville Illinois do their best to keep the old biplanes happy (and keep tire wear to a minimum) by flying crossshycountry fro m grass st rip to grass strip Finding fuel facilities can be a challenge these days and Kris has distilled th is airport information to be useful for like-minded grassshyrunway-preferring pilots Th is data was current as of the beginning of the year and wed suggest calling
ahead to confirm fuel availability and hours of operation If you have any changes or additions drop us an e-mail here at VintageAircraft eaaorg and well forward it to Kris
Our thanks to Kris for sharing his list Let us know if you find it useful
Breakfast and a Briefing The VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be
in operation again this year with an expanded schedule prior to convention and fly-in-style panshycake and egg breakfasts during EAA AirVenture Starting on Friday morning July 24 and continu-
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ing through Sunday July 26 the VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be open for breakfast (630 - 930 am) and dinner (430 - 730 pm) Startshying Monday July 27 only breakshyfast will be served at the Tall Pines Cafe (630 - 930 am) Just to the north an FAA Flight Service Stashytion (FSS) trailer will be located near the cafe At the trailer youll be able to check the weather for your flight and obtain a full briefshying from FSS specialists withshyout having to trek up to the FAA Building near the control tower Well see you there each morning for breakfast and a briefing
Are You a Friend of the VAA Red Barn
If so be sure to check in at the information desk at the VAA Red Barn There well issue you a speshycial name badge We can also pOint out the location for the Ford TrishyMotor rides If you have any quesshytions feel free to ask for Theresa Books the VAA administrative asshysistant If you need to reach her in advance of your arrival call her at EAA headquarters 920-426-6110
Our thanks to each of you who have contributed to the VAA Friends of the Red Barn 2009 camshypaign Well have the list of conshytributors in the September edition of Vintage Airplane
VAA Message Center If you would like to leave a messhy
sage for people you know who freshyquent the VAA Red Barn stop by the information desk You can write them a message in our noteshybook on a string and well post their name on the marker board so theyll know theres a message waitshying for them Sure cellular phones and walkie-talkies are great but sometimes nothing works better than a hand-scribbled note
VAA Picnic Tickets for the annual VAA picnic
to be held Wednesday July 29 at the Nature Center will be available for sale at the VAA Red Barn Tick-
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ets must be purchased in advance so we know how much food to order The delicious meal will be served afshyter 530 pm Trams will begin leavshying the VAA Red Barn around 5 pm and will make return trips after the picnic Type clubs may hold their annual banquets during the picnic Call Jeannie Hill (815-943-7205) and she will reserve seating so your type club can sit together
Shawano Fly-Out The annual fly-out to Shawano
is Saturday August 1 The sign-up sheet will be at the desk at the VAA Red Barn and the briefing will be at 7 am the morning of the flyshyout The community of Shawano approximately an hour north of Oshkosh (as the Cub flies) is a big supporter of VAA and puts forth a lot of effort to sponsor this event Shawanos residents do a great job of hosting us and we hope youll help us thank Shawano by joining us on the flight
VAA Red Barn Store The VAA Red Barn Store chockshy
full of VAA logo merchandise and other great gear will be open with expanded hours all week long Monday through Saturday 8 am until 6 pm Early-bird arrivals can shop on the previous weekend as well during limited hours Show your VAA membership card (or your receipt showing you joined VAA at the convention) and youll receive a 10 percent discount
One evening during AirVenture there will be a special VAA memshybers-only sale Inquire at the store for the date Bring your VAA card and youll receive an additional discount on specially priced mershychandise See you there
VAA Volunteer Opportunities Are you an ace pancake flipper
If youre not one yet we can help The VAA Tall Pines Cafe is looking for volunteers who can help provide a hearty breakfast to all the hungry campers on the south end of Wittshyman Field If you could lend a hand
for a morning or two wed apprecishyate it If thats not your cup of tea feel free to check with the VAA Volunteer Center located just to the northeast of the VAA Red Barn The volunshyteers who operate the booth will be happy to tell you when your help is needed each day It doesnt matter if its just for a few hours or for a few days-wed love to have your helpshying hands There is no need for you to contact us ahead of time you can talk with us when you arrive
VAA Judging Categories and Awards
The VAAs internationally recogshynized judging categories are
- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945
- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955
- Contemporary January I 1956 - December 31 1970
Any aircraft built within those years is eligible to park in the Showshyplane parking and camping areas If you wish to have your aircraft judged let the volunteer know when you register your aircraft and camping area If you want your aircraft to be judged by VAA volshyunteer judges you need to be a curshyrent Vintage Aircraft Association member VAA contributes a signifshyicant portion of the costs related to the EAA awards that are preshysented to the award winners The Awards Ceremony will be held Satshyurday evening at 6 in the new Vinshytage Hangar - not in Theater in the Woods as in previous years
Designated Smoking Areas Near Flightline
Smoking on the flightline at EAA AirVenture is prohibited because its a hazard to all aircraft There are several deSignated smoking areas with butt cans along the flightline well away from aircraft and refuelshying operations
DeSignated smoking areas will be south of the ultralight runway near the Hangar Cafe near the Warbirds area (northeast corner of
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A Night at the Movies With EAA Fly-In Theater Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and watch a great aviation movie at the
EAA Fly-In Theater presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilshyton Watches Movies are shown nightly from Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1 and each film is introduced by a celebrity presenter The theater is loshycated just north of EAAs Camp Scholler at the end of Doolittle Drive and the proshygram begins at 830 pm
Heres the lineup of movies along with the guest presenters who have been confirmed
Sunday July 26 One Six Right (presenter TBD)
and Barnstorming presented by Paul Glenshaw and Andrew King
Monday July 27 The Right Stuff (presenter TBD)
Tuesday July 28 Cloud Dancer presented byTom Poberezny and friends
Wednesday July 29 Six Days Seven Nights presented by Harrison Ford
Thursday July 30 Bat2 1 (presenter TBD)
Friday July 31 X-1S presented by Joe Engle
Saturday August 1 Pearl Harbor (presenter TBD)
Audrey Lane and Eide Avenue) the Wearhouse flag pole area the shade pavilion north of the control tower and near the Ultralight Barn Loshycations will be indicated on EAAs free convention grounds map The admission wristband also instructs visitors that smoking is allowed only in deSignated smoking areas
EAA AirVenture Is Almost Here Are You Ready
Just a few short weeks from now many of you will make the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh for EAA AirshyVenture 2009 Are you ready Here are several handy online tools on the newly redesigned AirVenture website
Visit wwwAirVentureorg and find out what you need to know about The Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration
Admission Parking Hours wwwAirVentureorgplanningadmisshy
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Put more than a thousand preshysentations workshops and other scheduled events at your fingertips
Find Your Favorite Presentations and Workshops Online
With hundreds of the worlds leading aviation authorities givshying close to 1000 individual preshysentations at nearly 4S locations spread throughout the AirVenture grounds finding out who is preshysenting where and when can be in a word challenging The EAA AirVenture website has an online tool that can make this task simshyple when you use the integrated AirVenture Schedule
Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
A quick link to this new schedshyule is wwwAirVentureorgschedule
A brand-new groundbreaking feature this year is the ability to creshyate your own itinerary of various events of interest You can save or print it out for future reference
The online schedule will now make it easier for you to find preshysentations book signings activishyties movies and other events at every venue on the site
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
e The VAA has 19 local chapters continued on page 32
MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
BY MIKE SHEETZ
ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Rare Pitcairn Autogiro Arrives for AirVenture
Around this time last year Jack and Kate Tiffany of Spring Hill Ohio and the crew of Leading Edge Restorashytions were anticipating the flight of their recently restored Pitcairn PA-18 Autogiro to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2008 However the rotor blades were significantly damaged during testing about a week prior to Oshkosh and the flight had to be called off
That made the arrival of the PA-18 that much sweeter as the 77-year-old rotorcraft landed safely at EAAs Pioneer Airport on Wednesday June 24 2009 in plenty of time for this years convention A total of 19 Pitcairn PA-18s were built from 1932-1933 and this one the result of nearly a decade-long restoration represents the only flying example left in the world
The last leg of the journey to Pioneer Airport was from the Hartford Wisconsin airport about 38 nautical miles south of Oshkosh With just a hint of emotion in his voice Jack remarked as the gyro took off on the final leg from Hartford Wisconsin Its unreal [to see it depart] 40 miles from Oshkosh after nine years its unreal
Plans are for the aircraft to be displayed at-where else-Pioneer Airports Pitcairn Hangar until right before AirVenture then it will be relocated to the Vintage area on convention grounds for static display throughout the week For more on the arrival of the Autogiro along with a video clip of it in flight visit www AirVentureorg and click on the Multimedia link
After AirVenture the PA-18 will return to the Pitcairn Hangar for display through August Andrew King pishylot may even fly the Autogiro in EAAs Good 01 Days of Aviation event scheduled for August 29-30 before deshyparting to the airport in Brodhead Wisconsin and then back to Spring Hill Ohio
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To help members who fly in to understand the layout of the convention area administered by the VAA weve prepared this simplified map As you can see camping starts at Row 74 on the east side of the main northsouth road (Wittman Road) with the areas to the north of that line set up to handle display-only vintage aircraft Thats why you may see open areas as you taxi south to your camping location
Once you arrive youll need to register your aircraft andor campsite In addition to roving registration veshyhicles there is one main aircraft registration building 10shy
cated just south of the VAA Red Barn (see map) The EAA convention campgrounds are private campgrounds and are not open to non-EAA members Each campsite must be registered by a current EAA member
Another immediate benefit of VAA membership is your free VAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 Participant Plaque which you can pick up in the rear of the Red Barn EAA and VAA memberships are available at both aircraft registration and at the membership booth located under the VAA Welcome Arch northeast of the Red Barn at the corner of Wittman Road and Vern Avenue
Flight Planning for Your EAA AirVenture Trip
As an EAA m ember (an im porshytant part of your VAA m embershyship) you can use the EAA Flight Planner to chart your trip to Witshytman Field for EAA AirVenture Osshyhkosh 2009 Just click on the EAA Flight Planner link on the left side of the members-only home page at httpMem bersEAAorg or you can log in at www VintageA ircraftorg
Grass Runways and Fuel Also o n ou r VAA web sit e we
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that are more pleasant to fly when they are flown from grass strips and he and his buddies from Shelbyville Illinois do their best to keep the old biplanes happy (and keep tire wear to a minimum) by flying crossshycountry fro m grass st rip to grass strip Finding fuel facilities can be a challenge these days and Kris has distilled th is airport information to be useful for like-minded grassshyrunway-preferring pilots Th is data was current as of the beginning of the year and wed suggest calling
ahead to confirm fuel availability and hours of operation If you have any changes or additions drop us an e-mail here at VintageAircraft eaaorg and well forward it to Kris
Our thanks to Kris for sharing his list Let us know if you find it useful
Breakfast and a Briefing The VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be
in operation again this year with an expanded schedule prior to convention and fly-in-style panshycake and egg breakfasts during EAA AirVenture Starting on Friday morning July 24 and continu-
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ing through Sunday July 26 the VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be open for breakfast (630 - 930 am) and dinner (430 - 730 pm) Startshying Monday July 27 only breakshyfast will be served at the Tall Pines Cafe (630 - 930 am) Just to the north an FAA Flight Service Stashytion (FSS) trailer will be located near the cafe At the trailer youll be able to check the weather for your flight and obtain a full briefshying from FSS specialists withshyout having to trek up to the FAA Building near the control tower Well see you there each morning for breakfast and a briefing
Are You a Friend of the VAA Red Barn
If so be sure to check in at the information desk at the VAA Red Barn There well issue you a speshycial name badge We can also pOint out the location for the Ford TrishyMotor rides If you have any quesshytions feel free to ask for Theresa Books the VAA administrative asshysistant If you need to reach her in advance of your arrival call her at EAA headquarters 920-426-6110
Our thanks to each of you who have contributed to the VAA Friends of the Red Barn 2009 camshypaign Well have the list of conshytributors in the September edition of Vintage Airplane
VAA Message Center If you would like to leave a messhy
sage for people you know who freshyquent the VAA Red Barn stop by the information desk You can write them a message in our noteshybook on a string and well post their name on the marker board so theyll know theres a message waitshying for them Sure cellular phones and walkie-talkies are great but sometimes nothing works better than a hand-scribbled note
VAA Picnic Tickets for the annual VAA picnic
to be held Wednesday July 29 at the Nature Center will be available for sale at the VAA Red Barn Tick-
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ets must be purchased in advance so we know how much food to order The delicious meal will be served afshyter 530 pm Trams will begin leavshying the VAA Red Barn around 5 pm and will make return trips after the picnic Type clubs may hold their annual banquets during the picnic Call Jeannie Hill (815-943-7205) and she will reserve seating so your type club can sit together
Shawano Fly-Out The annual fly-out to Shawano
is Saturday August 1 The sign-up sheet will be at the desk at the VAA Red Barn and the briefing will be at 7 am the morning of the flyshyout The community of Shawano approximately an hour north of Oshkosh (as the Cub flies) is a big supporter of VAA and puts forth a lot of effort to sponsor this event Shawanos residents do a great job of hosting us and we hope youll help us thank Shawano by joining us on the flight
VAA Red Barn Store The VAA Red Barn Store chockshy
full of VAA logo merchandise and other great gear will be open with expanded hours all week long Monday through Saturday 8 am until 6 pm Early-bird arrivals can shop on the previous weekend as well during limited hours Show your VAA membership card (or your receipt showing you joined VAA at the convention) and youll receive a 10 percent discount
One evening during AirVenture there will be a special VAA memshybers-only sale Inquire at the store for the date Bring your VAA card and youll receive an additional discount on specially priced mershychandise See you there
VAA Volunteer Opportunities Are you an ace pancake flipper
If youre not one yet we can help The VAA Tall Pines Cafe is looking for volunteers who can help provide a hearty breakfast to all the hungry campers on the south end of Wittshyman Field If you could lend a hand
for a morning or two wed apprecishyate it If thats not your cup of tea feel free to check with the VAA Volunteer Center located just to the northeast of the VAA Red Barn The volunshyteers who operate the booth will be happy to tell you when your help is needed each day It doesnt matter if its just for a few hours or for a few days-wed love to have your helpshying hands There is no need for you to contact us ahead of time you can talk with us when you arrive
VAA Judging Categories and Awards
The VAAs internationally recogshynized judging categories are
- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945
- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955
- Contemporary January I 1956 - December 31 1970
Any aircraft built within those years is eligible to park in the Showshyplane parking and camping areas If you wish to have your aircraft judged let the volunteer know when you register your aircraft and camping area If you want your aircraft to be judged by VAA volshyunteer judges you need to be a curshyrent Vintage Aircraft Association member VAA contributes a signifshyicant portion of the costs related to the EAA awards that are preshysented to the award winners The Awards Ceremony will be held Satshyurday evening at 6 in the new Vinshytage Hangar - not in Theater in the Woods as in previous years
Designated Smoking Areas Near Flightline
Smoking on the flightline at EAA AirVenture is prohibited because its a hazard to all aircraft There are several deSignated smoking areas with butt cans along the flightline well away from aircraft and refuelshying operations
DeSignated smoking areas will be south of the ultralight runway near the Hangar Cafe near the Warbirds area (northeast corner of
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A Night at the Movies With EAA Fly-In Theater Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and watch a great aviation movie at the
EAA Fly-In Theater presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilshyton Watches Movies are shown nightly from Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1 and each film is introduced by a celebrity presenter The theater is loshycated just north of EAAs Camp Scholler at the end of Doolittle Drive and the proshygram begins at 830 pm
Heres the lineup of movies along with the guest presenters who have been confirmed
Sunday July 26 One Six Right (presenter TBD)
and Barnstorming presented by Paul Glenshaw and Andrew King
Monday July 27 The Right Stuff (presenter TBD)
Tuesday July 28 Cloud Dancer presented byTom Poberezny and friends
Wednesday July 29 Six Days Seven Nights presented by Harrison Ford
Thursday July 30 Bat2 1 (presenter TBD)
Friday July 31 X-1S presented by Joe Engle
Saturday August 1 Pearl Harbor (presenter TBD)
Audrey Lane and Eide Avenue) the Wearhouse flag pole area the shade pavilion north of the control tower and near the Ultralight Barn Loshycations will be indicated on EAAs free convention grounds map The admission wristband also instructs visitors that smoking is allowed only in deSignated smoking areas
EAA AirVenture Is Almost Here Are You Ready
Just a few short weeks from now many of you will make the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh for EAA AirshyVenture 2009 Are you ready Here are several handy online tools on the newly redesigned AirVenture website
Visit wwwAirVentureorg and find out what you need to know about The Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration
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Put more than a thousand preshysentations workshops and other scheduled events at your fingertips
Find Your Favorite Presentations and Workshops Online
With hundreds of the worlds leading aviation authorities givshying close to 1000 individual preshysentations at nearly 4S locations spread throughout the AirVenture grounds finding out who is preshysenting where and when can be in a word challenging The EAA AirVenture website has an online tool that can make this task simshyple when you use the integrated AirVenture Schedule
Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
A quick link to this new schedshyule is wwwAirVentureorgschedule
A brand-new groundbreaking feature this year is the ability to creshyate your own itinerary of various events of interest You can save or print it out for future reference
The online schedule will now make it easier for you to find preshysentations book signings activishyties movies and other events at every venue on the site
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
e The VAA has 19 local chapters continued on page 32
MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
BY MIKE SHEETZ
ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Past Grand Champions - parked along road Wayfinding Tower ~ Ta ll Pines Cafeshy o VAA and in rows 60 amp 61Near Ultralight Runway Operations
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VAA Special Interest Aircraft
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Rows 60 Row 50 ~ Row 78 amp 61
East Side VAA Camping and Parking Starts HereshyCont inues to Row 150 R C6lO9
To help members who fly in to understand the layout of the convention area administered by the VAA weve prepared this simplified map As you can see camping starts at Row 74 on the east side of the main northsouth road (Wittman Road) with the areas to the north of that line set up to handle display-only vintage aircraft Thats why you may see open areas as you taxi south to your camping location
Once you arrive youll need to register your aircraft andor campsite In addition to roving registration veshyhicles there is one main aircraft registration building 10shy
cated just south of the VAA Red Barn (see map) The EAA convention campgrounds are private campgrounds and are not open to non-EAA members Each campsite must be registered by a current EAA member
Another immediate benefit of VAA membership is your free VAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2009 Participant Plaque which you can pick up in the rear of the Red Barn EAA and VAA memberships are available at both aircraft registration and at the membership booth located under the VAA Welcome Arch northeast of the Red Barn at the corner of Wittman Road and Vern Avenue
Flight Planning for Your EAA AirVenture Trip
As an EAA m ember (an im porshytant part of your VAA m embershyship) you can use the EAA Flight Planner to chart your trip to Witshytman Field for EAA AirVenture Osshyhkosh 2009 Just click on the EAA Flight Planner link on the left side of the members-only home page at httpMem bersEAAorg or you can log in at www VintageA ircraftorg
Grass Runways and Fuel Also o n ou r VAA web sit e we
p ubli sh a li st crea t ed b y VAA
m ember Kris Kortokrax Kris flies a variety of old biplanes
that are more pleasant to fly when they are flown from grass strips and he and his buddies from Shelbyville Illinois do their best to keep the old biplanes happy (and keep tire wear to a minimum) by flying crossshycountry fro m grass st rip to grass strip Finding fuel facilities can be a challenge these days and Kris has distilled th is airport information to be useful for like-minded grassshyrunway-preferring pilots Th is data was current as of the beginning of the year and wed suggest calling
ahead to confirm fuel availability and hours of operation If you have any changes or additions drop us an e-mail here at VintageAircraft eaaorg and well forward it to Kris
Our thanks to Kris for sharing his list Let us know if you find it useful
Breakfast and a Briefing The VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be
in operation again this year with an expanded schedule prior to convention and fly-in-style panshycake and egg breakfasts during EAA AirVenture Starting on Friday morning July 24 and continu-
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ing through Sunday July 26 the VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be open for breakfast (630 - 930 am) and dinner (430 - 730 pm) Startshying Monday July 27 only breakshyfast will be served at the Tall Pines Cafe (630 - 930 am) Just to the north an FAA Flight Service Stashytion (FSS) trailer will be located near the cafe At the trailer youll be able to check the weather for your flight and obtain a full briefshying from FSS specialists withshyout having to trek up to the FAA Building near the control tower Well see you there each morning for breakfast and a briefing
Are You a Friend of the VAA Red Barn
If so be sure to check in at the information desk at the VAA Red Barn There well issue you a speshycial name badge We can also pOint out the location for the Ford TrishyMotor rides If you have any quesshytions feel free to ask for Theresa Books the VAA administrative asshysistant If you need to reach her in advance of your arrival call her at EAA headquarters 920-426-6110
Our thanks to each of you who have contributed to the VAA Friends of the Red Barn 2009 camshypaign Well have the list of conshytributors in the September edition of Vintage Airplane
VAA Message Center If you would like to leave a messhy
sage for people you know who freshyquent the VAA Red Barn stop by the information desk You can write them a message in our noteshybook on a string and well post their name on the marker board so theyll know theres a message waitshying for them Sure cellular phones and walkie-talkies are great but sometimes nothing works better than a hand-scribbled note
VAA Picnic Tickets for the annual VAA picnic
to be held Wednesday July 29 at the Nature Center will be available for sale at the VAA Red Barn Tick-
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ets must be purchased in advance so we know how much food to order The delicious meal will be served afshyter 530 pm Trams will begin leavshying the VAA Red Barn around 5 pm and will make return trips after the picnic Type clubs may hold their annual banquets during the picnic Call Jeannie Hill (815-943-7205) and she will reserve seating so your type club can sit together
Shawano Fly-Out The annual fly-out to Shawano
is Saturday August 1 The sign-up sheet will be at the desk at the VAA Red Barn and the briefing will be at 7 am the morning of the flyshyout The community of Shawano approximately an hour north of Oshkosh (as the Cub flies) is a big supporter of VAA and puts forth a lot of effort to sponsor this event Shawanos residents do a great job of hosting us and we hope youll help us thank Shawano by joining us on the flight
VAA Red Barn Store The VAA Red Barn Store chockshy
full of VAA logo merchandise and other great gear will be open with expanded hours all week long Monday through Saturday 8 am until 6 pm Early-bird arrivals can shop on the previous weekend as well during limited hours Show your VAA membership card (or your receipt showing you joined VAA at the convention) and youll receive a 10 percent discount
One evening during AirVenture there will be a special VAA memshybers-only sale Inquire at the store for the date Bring your VAA card and youll receive an additional discount on specially priced mershychandise See you there
VAA Volunteer Opportunities Are you an ace pancake flipper
If youre not one yet we can help The VAA Tall Pines Cafe is looking for volunteers who can help provide a hearty breakfast to all the hungry campers on the south end of Wittshyman Field If you could lend a hand
for a morning or two wed apprecishyate it If thats not your cup of tea feel free to check with the VAA Volunteer Center located just to the northeast of the VAA Red Barn The volunshyteers who operate the booth will be happy to tell you when your help is needed each day It doesnt matter if its just for a few hours or for a few days-wed love to have your helpshying hands There is no need for you to contact us ahead of time you can talk with us when you arrive
VAA Judging Categories and Awards
The VAAs internationally recogshynized judging categories are
- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945
- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955
- Contemporary January I 1956 - December 31 1970
Any aircraft built within those years is eligible to park in the Showshyplane parking and camping areas If you wish to have your aircraft judged let the volunteer know when you register your aircraft and camping area If you want your aircraft to be judged by VAA volshyunteer judges you need to be a curshyrent Vintage Aircraft Association member VAA contributes a signifshyicant portion of the costs related to the EAA awards that are preshysented to the award winners The Awards Ceremony will be held Satshyurday evening at 6 in the new Vinshytage Hangar - not in Theater in the Woods as in previous years
Designated Smoking Areas Near Flightline
Smoking on the flightline at EAA AirVenture is prohibited because its a hazard to all aircraft There are several deSignated smoking areas with butt cans along the flightline well away from aircraft and refuelshying operations
DeSignated smoking areas will be south of the ultralight runway near the Hangar Cafe near the Warbirds area (northeast corner of
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A Night at the Movies With EAA Fly-In Theater Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and watch a great aviation movie at the
EAA Fly-In Theater presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilshyton Watches Movies are shown nightly from Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1 and each film is introduced by a celebrity presenter The theater is loshycated just north of EAAs Camp Scholler at the end of Doolittle Drive and the proshygram begins at 830 pm
Heres the lineup of movies along with the guest presenters who have been confirmed
Sunday July 26 One Six Right (presenter TBD)
and Barnstorming presented by Paul Glenshaw and Andrew King
Monday July 27 The Right Stuff (presenter TBD)
Tuesday July 28 Cloud Dancer presented byTom Poberezny and friends
Wednesday July 29 Six Days Seven Nights presented by Harrison Ford
Thursday July 30 Bat2 1 (presenter TBD)
Friday July 31 X-1S presented by Joe Engle
Saturday August 1 Pearl Harbor (presenter TBD)
Audrey Lane and Eide Avenue) the Wearhouse flag pole area the shade pavilion north of the control tower and near the Ultralight Barn Loshycations will be indicated on EAAs free convention grounds map The admission wristband also instructs visitors that smoking is allowed only in deSignated smoking areas
EAA AirVenture Is Almost Here Are You Ready
Just a few short weeks from now many of you will make the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh for EAA AirshyVenture 2009 Are you ready Here are several handy online tools on the newly redesigned AirVenture website
Visit wwwAirVentureorg and find out what you need to know about The Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration
Admission Parking Hours wwwAirVentureorgplanningadmisshy
sionhtml
Find or Share a Ride to Oshkosh wwwAirVentureorgrideshare
Site Map wwwAirVentureorgplanning
AV2009grounds_mappdf Quick reference guide of new site
layout wwwAirVentureorgsiteplan guidechangeshtml
AirVenture Schedule wwwAirVentureorgschedule
Where to Stay wwwAirVentureorgplanningwhere_
to_stayhtml
AirVenture NOTAM wwwAirVentureorgflying
Alternate Airports and Waypoints
wwwAirVentureorgflyingaltershynate_airportshtml
wwwAirVentureorg2008 news08060S--presentationshtml
Put more than a thousand preshysentations workshops and other scheduled events at your fingertips
Find Your Favorite Presentations and Workshops Online
With hundreds of the worlds leading aviation authorities givshying close to 1000 individual preshysentations at nearly 4S locations spread throughout the AirVenture grounds finding out who is preshysenting where and when can be in a word challenging The EAA AirVenture website has an online tool that can make this task simshyple when you use the integrated AirVenture Schedule
Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
A quick link to this new schedshyule is wwwAirVentureorgschedule
A brand-new groundbreaking feature this year is the ability to creshyate your own itinerary of various events of interest You can save or print it out for future reference
The online schedule will now make it easier for you to find preshysentations book signings activishyties movies and other events at every venue on the site
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
e The VAA has 19 local chapters continued on page 32
MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
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The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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ing through Sunday July 26 the VAA Tall Pines Cafe will be open for breakfast (630 - 930 am) and dinner (430 - 730 pm) Startshying Monday July 27 only breakshyfast will be served at the Tall Pines Cafe (630 - 930 am) Just to the north an FAA Flight Service Stashytion (FSS) trailer will be located near the cafe At the trailer youll be able to check the weather for your flight and obtain a full briefshying from FSS specialists withshyout having to trek up to the FAA Building near the control tower Well see you there each morning for breakfast and a briefing
Are You a Friend of the VAA Red Barn
If so be sure to check in at the information desk at the VAA Red Barn There well issue you a speshycial name badge We can also pOint out the location for the Ford TrishyMotor rides If you have any quesshytions feel free to ask for Theresa Books the VAA administrative asshysistant If you need to reach her in advance of your arrival call her at EAA headquarters 920-426-6110
Our thanks to each of you who have contributed to the VAA Friends of the Red Barn 2009 camshypaign Well have the list of conshytributors in the September edition of Vintage Airplane
VAA Message Center If you would like to leave a messhy
sage for people you know who freshyquent the VAA Red Barn stop by the information desk You can write them a message in our noteshybook on a string and well post their name on the marker board so theyll know theres a message waitshying for them Sure cellular phones and walkie-talkies are great but sometimes nothing works better than a hand-scribbled note
VAA Picnic Tickets for the annual VAA picnic
to be held Wednesday July 29 at the Nature Center will be available for sale at the VAA Red Barn Tick-
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ets must be purchased in advance so we know how much food to order The delicious meal will be served afshyter 530 pm Trams will begin leavshying the VAA Red Barn around 5 pm and will make return trips after the picnic Type clubs may hold their annual banquets during the picnic Call Jeannie Hill (815-943-7205) and she will reserve seating so your type club can sit together
Shawano Fly-Out The annual fly-out to Shawano
is Saturday August 1 The sign-up sheet will be at the desk at the VAA Red Barn and the briefing will be at 7 am the morning of the flyshyout The community of Shawano approximately an hour north of Oshkosh (as the Cub flies) is a big supporter of VAA and puts forth a lot of effort to sponsor this event Shawanos residents do a great job of hosting us and we hope youll help us thank Shawano by joining us on the flight
VAA Red Barn Store The VAA Red Barn Store chockshy
full of VAA logo merchandise and other great gear will be open with expanded hours all week long Monday through Saturday 8 am until 6 pm Early-bird arrivals can shop on the previous weekend as well during limited hours Show your VAA membership card (or your receipt showing you joined VAA at the convention) and youll receive a 10 percent discount
One evening during AirVenture there will be a special VAA memshybers-only sale Inquire at the store for the date Bring your VAA card and youll receive an additional discount on specially priced mershychandise See you there
VAA Volunteer Opportunities Are you an ace pancake flipper
If youre not one yet we can help The VAA Tall Pines Cafe is looking for volunteers who can help provide a hearty breakfast to all the hungry campers on the south end of Wittshyman Field If you could lend a hand
for a morning or two wed apprecishyate it If thats not your cup of tea feel free to check with the VAA Volunteer Center located just to the northeast of the VAA Red Barn The volunshyteers who operate the booth will be happy to tell you when your help is needed each day It doesnt matter if its just for a few hours or for a few days-wed love to have your helpshying hands There is no need for you to contact us ahead of time you can talk with us when you arrive
VAA Judging Categories and Awards
The VAAs internationally recogshynized judging categories are
- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945
- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955
- Contemporary January I 1956 - December 31 1970
Any aircraft built within those years is eligible to park in the Showshyplane parking and camping areas If you wish to have your aircraft judged let the volunteer know when you register your aircraft and camping area If you want your aircraft to be judged by VAA volshyunteer judges you need to be a curshyrent Vintage Aircraft Association member VAA contributes a signifshyicant portion of the costs related to the EAA awards that are preshysented to the award winners The Awards Ceremony will be held Satshyurday evening at 6 in the new Vinshytage Hangar - not in Theater in the Woods as in previous years
Designated Smoking Areas Near Flightline
Smoking on the flightline at EAA AirVenture is prohibited because its a hazard to all aircraft There are several deSignated smoking areas with butt cans along the flightline well away from aircraft and refuelshying operations
DeSignated smoking areas will be south of the ultralight runway near the Hangar Cafe near the Warbirds area (northeast corner of
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A Night at the Movies With EAA Fly-In Theater Bring your blankets and lawn chairs and watch a great aviation movie at the
EAA Fly-In Theater presented by Ford Motor Company and supported by Hamilshyton Watches Movies are shown nightly from Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1 and each film is introduced by a celebrity presenter The theater is loshycated just north of EAAs Camp Scholler at the end of Doolittle Drive and the proshygram begins at 830 pm
Heres the lineup of movies along with the guest presenters who have been confirmed
Sunday July 26 One Six Right (presenter TBD)
and Barnstorming presented by Paul Glenshaw and Andrew King
Monday July 27 The Right Stuff (presenter TBD)
Tuesday July 28 Cloud Dancer presented byTom Poberezny and friends
Wednesday July 29 Six Days Seven Nights presented by Harrison Ford
Thursday July 30 Bat2 1 (presenter TBD)
Friday July 31 X-1S presented by Joe Engle
Saturday August 1 Pearl Harbor (presenter TBD)
Audrey Lane and Eide Avenue) the Wearhouse flag pole area the shade pavilion north of the control tower and near the Ultralight Barn Loshycations will be indicated on EAAs free convention grounds map The admission wristband also instructs visitors that smoking is allowed only in deSignated smoking areas
EAA AirVenture Is Almost Here Are You Ready
Just a few short weeks from now many of you will make the annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh for EAA AirshyVenture 2009 Are you ready Here are several handy online tools on the newly redesigned AirVenture website
Visit wwwAirVentureorg and find out what you need to know about The Worlds Greatest Aviation Celebration
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Put more than a thousand preshysentations workshops and other scheduled events at your fingertips
Find Your Favorite Presentations and Workshops Online
With hundreds of the worlds leading aviation authorities givshying close to 1000 individual preshysentations at nearly 4S locations spread throughout the AirVenture grounds finding out who is preshysenting where and when can be in a word challenging The EAA AirVenture website has an online tool that can make this task simshyple when you use the integrated AirVenture Schedule
Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
A quick link to this new schedshyule is wwwAirVentureorgschedule
A brand-new groundbreaking feature this year is the ability to creshyate your own itinerary of various events of interest You can save or print it out for future reference
The online schedule will now make it easier for you to find preshysentations book signings activishyties movies and other events at every venue on the site
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
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MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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Cribbage Boards Handcrafted from wood they include game instructions pegs cards and historic information about the plane Game board can be removed from airplane for playing Nieuport28C1 52652955 $14900 Spruce Goose 52652956
Mens Cotton Golfshirt Green with Tan details V13340 S $31 95 V13341 M $31 95 V13342 L $31 95 V13343 XL $31 95 V13344 2X $31 95 Charcoal Grey with white details V0778 M $3299 V07788 L $3299 V07789 XL $3299 V07790 2X $3599 Black with Red details V13301 S $31 95 V13302 M $31 95 V13303 L $31 95 V13304 XL $31 95 V13305 2X $31 95
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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Hundreds of showplanes means dozens of flightline volunteers who safely marshal the airplanes in and out of the parking areas
The VAAs Red Barn Hospitality Center and Headquarters is the hub of activshyity during the annual convention
than 7000 members and approxishymately 40000-50000 non member vintage airplane owners at FAA Agshying Airplane conferences each year
e The VAA nationally has 24 memshyber-elected officers and directors directly publicly and visibly in conshystant support of the vintage airplane movement 12 months each year
e The VAA has initiated and conshyducts the only annual Vintage Aircraft Hall of Fame program in the world
e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
e The VAA has just completed a new large one-of-a-kind Type Club and workshopmeeting and disshyplay facility on Wittman Field for the benefit of vintage aircraft type clubs of the nation
e During the annual AirVenture the VAA hosts member picnics member fly-outs and volunteer apshypreciation parties
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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EAA AlrVenture Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) Oshkosh Wisconsin July 27middotAugust 2 2009 wwwAirVentureorg
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Southeast Regional Fly-In Middleton Field Airport (GZH) Evergreen Alabama October 23-25 2009 wwwSERFIorg
US Sport Aviation Expo Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) Sebring Rorida January 21middot24 2010 wwwSportmiddotAviationmiddotExpocom
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Located at wwwAirVentureorg under Attraction s an d then under Activitie s Presentations amp Workshops the database inshycludes all the venues sub jects and topics presenters and events from not only Forums and Workshops but also Warbirds in Review KidshyVenture Museum Speakers Showshycase Authors Corner Theater in the Woods special at the airshycraft presentations on AeroShell Square and more In addition the web schedule is updated on a daily basis
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
When the food service vendor for the convent ion decided to drop morning food service on the south end of the field VAA stepped up to the challenge and created the VAA Tall Pines Cafe Like t he rest of VAAs programs and ofshyferings during the week the meals are cooked by volunteer staff
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
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MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Who we are how fortunate we are and all for so little
BY CHARLES W H ARRIS
The grassroots aviation commushynity of the good old United States is a most fortunate and privileged group of airplane enthusiasts We have beshycome the current-day recipients of the brilliant aviation concept that Paul Poberezny and his small group of close flying friends created in Milshywaukee Wisconsin in January 1953 and what has since become a worldshywide movement of people from evshyery walk of life who have banded together in a common cause-the cause of sport aviation Sport aviashytion now encompasses every phase of aviation and airplane interests
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antiques classics contemporaries warbirds experimentals light sport aerobatics replicas biplanes ad inshyfinitum and all of these areas of our special interes t are welcomed and encouraged under EAA and its huge 160000-member umbrella
In the Vintage Aircraft Associashytion (VAA) while we embrace virtushyally every airplane we see the older more historic airplanes have a very special appeal and Significance to us From the days of Orville and Wilshybur and their first ingenious and miraculous flying machine from Capt Eddie and his sturdy Spad
from Slim Lindbergh and his Ryan NYP from Jimmy Doolittle and his Gee Bee and Super Solution from Howard Hughes and his simply fabulous world-speed-record-breakshying Racer and from Benny Howard and Ike Mike Pete and Mulligan came our inspired and breathtakshying background Mr Piper and his Cubs together with eG Taylor and his Taylorcrafts Don Luscombe and his Monocoupes and later his even more successful and remarkshyable 8 Series Luscombes and still later Duane Wallace with his highly marketable 140s 150s 170s 172s
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180s 182s and 195s together with Mr Piper again and his Short Wings Cherokees and Comanches creshyated the marketing successes that brought aviation down to a cost level that nearly everyone could afshyford These aviation pioneers and their airp lanes together with Walshyter Beechs engineering masterpiece Bonanzas brought us aviation as we know it today
In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
Whether you pose a question in the information area of the Red Barn or sit down on the Red Barns front porch next to someone you have never met before you will be as much at home as you are at your hometown airport hangar The conversations will center on airplanes about aviation happenings and personalities and the attachment and affection EAA
FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
eThe VAA publishes and distributes 12 full-color monthly magazines to its members each year with 40 pages of content There is hardly a monthly aviation magazine in the country toshyday that can be obtained for $36 per year and certainly not one devoted exclusively to vintage airplanes
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MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
BY MIKE SHEETZ
ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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In addition to these legends there have been all the other greats and near greats who with their unshycanny abilities have developed the airplanes for us individual pilots who love the sky who love to fly and love the indescribable magic of liftoff and flight through Mother Natures heavens in what is still a never-ending miracle Today thoushysands and thousands of these unbeshylievably fine airplanes are available to us with all of their proven capashybilities at essentially bargain baseshyment prices We are the present-day beneficiaries of our glorious aviashytion past additionally we are the recipients of what EAA founder Paul Poberezny envisioned and creshyated It should be crystal clear to everyone what an exceptionally fortunate group we are
This is who and what we are Our love of airplanes is what we are and the airplanes are our glue But the who we are even tops the what we are The people of EAA and VAA are the emotional heart and soul of all of this magic When one steps onto the porch of the Red Barn or into the brand-new Vintage Hangar at EAA AirVenture Osh kosh even if it migh t be your very first time and even if the place is busy as a bee-there is not a single stranger not one
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FAA Administrator Marion Blakey speaks to a group ofType Club officials during EAA AirVenture In cooperation with EAA the Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciation has regular contact with many levels of the FAA as we work to represhysent our membership on maintenance and operational issues
The VAA volunteer kiosk is always a busy place More than 500 members volunteer their time and expertise during the weeklong convention
and vintage members have for their airplanes their aviation friends and their aviation organization
This is who we are this is what we are we are the living counterparts of those who pioneered the develshyopment and sparked the fervor of self-taught surplus IN-4 drivers in the 1920s the Taylor Cub and Piper Cub buyers and pilots of the 1930s and who in the postwar years would buy and fly the Swifts Bonanzas Comanches Mooneys Sky hawks and Skylanes We have grown into a 600000 certificated pilot group in
the United States and support the largest private aircraft industry in the world but through it all our hearts would always be in the pride and privilege of flying our own little airshyplanes from our own home airports when we chose to where we chose and fly them with the safety and competence that has been gained by scores and scores of years and thoushysands of hours in the air This is who we are this is what we are
This is our past this is our herishytage this is who we are and all of this is now part and parcel of EAAs
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Ken an Lorraine Morris explain the proper way to hand-prop an airplane one of the educational events the VAA hosts in its area every year
Expert metal workers demonstrate metal-shaping techniques to mem who can then give it a try themselves
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VAA We have been the leaders in our chosen field since our first days in 1972 We have moved consistently over the past 37 years to perpetushyate our historic past and at the same time deliver the utmost to our VAA members in the way of first and alshyways foremost our freedom to fly Without EAA and our 160OOO-plus members and our never-ending vigishylance for our freedom to fly it is alshymost certain private and sport flying in the United States and perhaps over the entire world would not exshyist Secondly VAA is never ending in its quest to provide its membership with the utmost in solid meaningshyful ever greater member benefits and value Our members presently receive so much value for their affiliation within our special area of interest that we quite often lose sight of the forest for all the beautiful (airplane) trees Virtually sight unseen almost invisible and taken for granted every day are the things that VAA has proshyvided us through the years and the ever more new things that further enhance our membership
Are you aware or have you ever considered
e The VAA has two full-time staff members namely an executive dishyrectormagazine editor and his very able assistant EAA provides access to EAA staff in everything needed for the business of running an asshysociation from membership cards to financial accounting Additionshyaly VAA en joys edi torial assisshytance from the EAA editorial staff and constantly commissions outshyside professional writers to provide Vintage Airplane magazine readers the finest in articles about our most outstanding historic airplanes and sport aviation personalities
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e The VAA has 19 local chapters continued on page 32
MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
BY MIKE SHEETZ
ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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MIKE STEINEKE
The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
BY MIKE SHEETZ
ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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The Jacobson Family Saga of N5752C
A Grand Champion with a family connection
Its amazing how strong both nostalgia and sentimental attachment can be In Steve Jake Jacobsons case even he admits it was powerful
enough to totally overcome comshymon sense and financial foreshyboding when it was discovered his newly purchased C-170A was
BY B UDD D AVISSON
a fros ty caricature of an airplane crafted entirely out of corrosion
Every time we took something apart it got worse and worse This airplane was so far gone it would have been difficult to part it out because so little was usable He makes it sound as if the scrap recyshyclers would have refused it Had it
Above The tapered outer panel wing outline of the 170A would become a classhysic planform in its own right used on everything from the Cessna 150 up through the modern 182
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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been any other C-170 a scrapyard would have been its final destinashytion But N5752C wasn t just any C-170 and Steve Jacobson wasnt just any C-170 owner
Steve was born into aviation and his life and this particular C-170A have been entwined in one way or another for nearly half a century (48 years to be exact)
liMy dad flew for American Airshylines and was based out of Nashshyville for many years he says While there he and three other pilots decided to buy an airplane to fly their families around in and possibly teach some of their kids to fly That airplane was N5752C
The year was 1961 and Steve was learning to fly
II Actually I had flown a lot with my dad In fact I was sort of his aushytopilot Then when I was about to turn 16 he gave me a few official flying lessons in a Champ getting
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me ready to solo on my birthday However when the time came we were delayed by weather and in the meantime the C-170 was deshylivered Since it was there Dad gave me a few hours of dual in it and away I went doing my initial solo in our own 1701
By now youre getting an inkling as to why Steve is so attached to his airplane but hang on because the story doesnt flow as smoothly as he would have liked
Our airplane was never a cream puff he says lilt flew pipeline pashytrol for 10 years then sat around for six months before Dad and his friends bought it He eventually bought them all out and even though it was a little tired lookshying it was corrosion-free and had a strong engine My grandparents lived in Kansas which was a twoshyday trip on the ground so Five Two Charlie spent a lot of time
droning back and forth between Tennessee and Kansas
As is always the case we tend to outgrow airplanes with which we were perfectly happy as we yearn for something thats faster and ofshyfers more utility
In 1972 Dad sold the 170 and upgraded to a C-l72 with an Avcon 180-hp conversion and a constantshyspeed prop By that time I had alshyready gone to college and was flyshying A-7s in the Navy Reserve after being on active duty for six years including a tour in Southeast Asia I had known the pilot Dad sold the C-170 to when I was based at NAS Lemoore California when he was flying A-4s I gave him a few hours of dual and watched our first family airplane disappear over the horizon At the time the airplane had around 6000 hours on it but it was still a strong-running wellshymaintained airplane II
While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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While Jake Jacobson toyed with the idea of a super-duper full-of -bells-andshywhistles modern panel once the decision was made to put the airplane back to its original configuration there was no turning away from creating a restored panel right down to the brown-faced flight instruments and NARCO radio
Interestingly the airplane was again sold to another US Navy pishylot whom Steve had known
For whatever reason when I got back into flying little airplanes again-I was flying for the airlines almost since getting off active duty-I decided I wanted our old airplane back It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane It clouds your judgment
I tracked down the second owner who had moved to Fort Laushyderdale It turned out the airplane had been out of license and sitshyting outside for four years almost SteveJake Jacobson and Chris Shaw who was instrumental in getting the within sight of the ocean I knew Cessna 170 restored to award-winning condition Chris works for Harry Delshythat was a potentially lethal envishy licker of Del-Air in Porterville California ronment for an airplane but as I walked around it I kept telling myshy it And I made a really dumb error spected and licensed The decision self It doesnt look all that bad I agreed to take it at a lower price was also easier because the owner Truth was if a door had fallen off in and out of license rather than pay had recently left Florida and moved my hand I still would have bought full price and have the airplane in- the airplane to Phoenix which
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
I so look forward to AirVenture 2009 ~
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
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testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
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Back before the days of electric trim and a flap motor the pilot could quicklygrab a handful of flapsand roll in just the right amount of trim During the restoration care was taken to duplicate the style and finish of the placards and lettering style
would save me a lot of flying time getting it home
1 knew things were probably worse than they appeared when I forked over $3000 just to get a ferry permit because the mechanics didnt want to do all the work the airplane needed to be licensed Reshygardless I hopped in and pointed it west toward San Francisco where I was based at the time
Moving an airplane into the Bay Area or any metropolitan area for that matter isn t as easy as it sounds because of that famous sixshyletter obstacle hangar
I couldnt find any place to put it that wasnt as bad or worse than sitting outside at Fort Lauderdale Even tiedowns in the mud were wildly expensive and the salty mist in the Bay Area would eat what was left of my oid airplane in no time at all At my fathers recshyommendation I contacted Harry
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The interior fabrics were duplicated by Ronnie Broadhead owner of Bustshyers Auto Upholstery in Porterville California The multipanel design from 1950 was expertly re-created and shoulder harnesses were installed in such a way that few would think they werent original equipment
Dellicker of Del-Air in Porterville California That was well inland and away from the sea Besides Harry had done the conversion on Dads 180-hp 172 and came highly recommended by a wide variety of sources as being one of the best metal men in the country
liMy original intent was to have Harry fix what needed fixing so I could go flying and en joy my airshyp lane However it seemed as if it was a matter of only a few hours after he started taking th ings apart that I knew my airplane was much sicker than I thought it was
For one thing t here was a lot of seam and rivet corrosion In fact later on after we had decided to do the entire airplane I found I could hit a belly skin with my fist and break the rivets loose Those four years sitting on the ramp in Fort Lauderdale had done some seshyrious damage
II A good percentage of the more serious damage was because there was a leak in the ceiling and all that salty water was running inside and down one of the door posts into the belly One of the gear brackets looked like a stack of potato chips it had exfoliated so badly It was
way past the intergranular stage and that gear could have ripped out of the airplane at any second Knowing how far I had ferried the airplane when I saw that I couldnt believe I had dodged that particular bu llet It should have come home on a truck
Early in the process I came to grips with reality I hadnt bought an airplane I had bought a flying basket case Everything about the airplane was wrong and there was simply no way to put it back into the air safely without doing a comshyplete restoration But I didnt know if I really wanted to go that way or not I knew I didnt want a show winner but I did want a totally safe airplane with a nice paint job new interior and IFR panel
Something happens to owners when an airplane is totally broken down to its basic structure It is so far apart that they usually find themshyselves thinking Well weve gone this far we might as well do just one more thing And that leads to anshyother And another And
I designed this lavish panel after one I had seen in a Bonanza and acshytually had it machined out It had all the bells and whistles but when
With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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With more than 75 percent of the exterior skins replaced during the restoration the 170 gleams in the partly sunny skies over Waupaca Wisconsin one of our regular sites for a relaxing afternoon of air-to-air and ground photograshyphy during the annual EAA convention
I went radio shopping I found the bells and whistles were going to cost something like five times what I had paid for the airplane in the first place I just couldnt do it
II At the same time I sat back and thought about how much of my life had been spent glaring at illuminated gauges in the middle of the night in lousy weather I had done it in single-engine Navy airshyplanes and most recently in 777s and it was usually over the ocean I was building this airplane to fly for fun but as many dark nasty nights had repeatedly reminded me flying hard IFR quite often is a long way from being fun
I was in the middle of an epiphany of sorts and didnt know exactly which direction I wanted to go with Five Two Charlie But IFR was becoming a non-factor in the equation
IIAbout that time I went to Oshkosh where the place seemed overrun with beautiful 170s and I looked at them all in great detail I was learnshying a lot and each airplane gave me ideas However the airplane I kept coming back to was Don Lindshyholms prizewinning 170A It was polished and just seemed right to me The hook had been set and
I then knew what I wanted in an airplane a no-frills fun-to-fly and fun-to-Iook-at airplane Five Two Charlie was going back to original
When Steve returned home he pulled the trigger on a total resshytoration and Harry Dellicker inshycluded a bunch of extra sheets of aluminum in his next truckload of metal because he was going to need it for S2C
Del-Air is well-equipped for doshying complete 170172 rebuilds beshycause among other things it has one of the original fuselage jigs it bought from the factory and Steve Jacobson made good use of it
lilt became obvious that there wasnt one piece of major structure that shouldnt come apart if nothshying else to check for corrosion and the jigs were going to be invaluable
II After 6000-p lus hours in the air and over SS years even though the old engine had been leaking enough oil tha t the enshygine compartment had no corroshysion the firewa ll forward looked pretty sorry In fact t h e firewall itself looked pretty sorry It was a mess of cracks and had so many extra holes in it that it looked like Swiss cheese We had to replace the entire thing
Incidentally as soon as I saw Lindholms airplane I knew Five Two Charlie was going to be polshyished and that drove many of the decisions during restoration
It goes without saying that polshyishing an airplane doesnt give the restorer anywhere to hide Every single little nick ding and zit beshycomes painfully obvious and evshyery time he lines up a rivet gun to drive a rivet he asks himself ls this the one where Im going to screw up and put a smiley face on an otherwise pristine panel and have to replace it Its a nerve-racking process tha t leads to craftsmanshyship paranoia during the restorashytion Its an old axiom that perfecshytion is the enemy of completion but an imperfect polished airplane isnt someth ing any true craftsman wants to lay claim to Its perfection or nothing Thats the nature of reshystoring an airplane to be polished And that meant S2C was going to have to be something other than a run-of-the-mill C-170A
II As we worked our way back down the fuselage the amount of rivet corrosion was in some places unbelievab le Everything was so bad we just figured a piece was for patterns only unless proven
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
Nothing we can say would add anything to that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
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otherwise We wound up replacshying about 75 percent of the skins Even the fin was mostly junk All we were able to save were the ribs The same thing applied to all the control surfaces The corrugations were terrible so we got new skins and remanufactured the surfaces We werent restoring an airplane We were building a new one one piece at a time
liThe wings were basically a reshypeat of the fuselage We pulled evshyery bolt and rivet and replaced evshyerything including skins cables pulleys and anything else that wasnt close to looking like new and I dont remember much that fit that description
liThe instrument panel had been modified for an old VTR-1 so we just rebuilt one and put it back in Were using the receiver and the VOR but the transmitter isnt hooked up The one [transceiver] we use is in the glove box
Steve can t say enough about the support he got from the Intershynational Cessna 170 Association or the maintenance guys at the Cessna Pilots Association but none of them could help him when it came time to do the interior There was lots of information for a 170B but nothing for a 170A and Steve hadnt come that far only to cut corners at the last minute
Ron Partridge customer service manager for the propeller division at Cessna and his staff shuffled through a bunch of drawings and came up with engineering specs on the fabric and stitching patterns I took this to Ronnie Broadhead owner of Busters Auto Upholstery in Porterville who is known for his 195 interiors Using that informashytion he was able to duplicate the original 170A interior
When speaking about the restoshyration process a number of names come up repeatedly because over the several decades the rebuild was in process the hands on the job changed
John Garrett at Del-Air an abshysolute wizard with metal got us
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I decided I wanted our old airplane back
It was as simple as that I wanted it no matter what
which is a bad mind-set to have when buying an airplane
started before he retired and then Paul Lodas jumped in However Chris Shaw who was a young guy just out of school took over and finished the airplane by himself inshycluding doing the panel rewiring the entire airplane and shooting the Insignia Red in the original facshytory scheme He cant get too much credit for what hes done
Chris also polished the airplane so well that I needed welders gogshygles to approach it for the first flight which was Valentines Day 2007 It was 22 years since its last flight
I dont know exactly how to say what my feelings were on that first flight I was worried careful and all the things youd expect But there was something else Something more powerful
liMy dad didnt live to see the
airplane finished but as I took off I knew he was watching and I couldnt help but grin thinkshying that my career in fact my entire life started right there in that same cockpit with him by my side Absolutely nothing gets better than that
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
The original plans were for the owner Tony Miller of Warsaw Indi-
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Por an old student pishylot and devout aviation junky there is nothing like a trip to Oshkosh Wisshyconsin for EAA AirVenture
Oshkosh I was fortunate enough this past July 2008 to join with my older brother Harry my certificated flight instructor on our annual pilshygrimage to the mecca of aviation as we have for some 20 years now Only this time it would be a lot difshyferent You see we were given the privilege of flying there from our northern Indiana home in a beautishyful fully restored 1957 Beechcraft Super E18S Tri-Gear
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ana to fly the vintage aircraft early in the week to the show We were to follow with the companys King Air in mid-week and return with the Twin Beech at the close As luck would have it for me Tony was unshyable to go but wanted to still show the beautiful 57 Brother Harry and I were given the opportunity to fly the vintage aircraft to the show prepare it for judging and return I couldnt believe it was really going to happen
The plan was to leave sometime on Wednesday afternoon and arrive at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional Airshyport (OSH) when it reopened after the afternoon air show Of course the weather always has the last say in things So early Thursday morning
we would take this beautiful bird for its flight to the big dance Up early Thursday morning I found ground fog and low ceilings to be ruling our departure plans Harry is instrumentshyrated but preferred to not depart unshytil the elements were at least a little more accommodating
We arrived at the hangar in great anticipation of the day and events to come Just walking in and seeshying the two birds in that beautiful hangar setting was worth the price I wasnt disappointed in what I saw of the Super 18 when I first laid eyes on it Spectacular in cream and red with gold accents it certainly was a plane begging to be flown admired and preserved for lovers of flying
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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machines Tony had seen that it was lovingly restored with beautiful atshytention to nearly every detail The panel was closely restored to origishynal except for the GPS autopilot navigation systems and the radios including the Bose headsets I was in aviation heaven already
With our luggage flight bags navigation charts and supplies to prepare the plane for judging we were set to get this journey movshying Fortunately the ground fog beshygan to lift around 9 am We knew that the overcast was shallow and we would arrive on top in short orshyder We pulled the beautiful bird out into what was left of the mist had the fuel truck top the tanks and prepared for departure Start-up was more than I expected The checklist for an older radial-engine airplane like this is extensive Bringing each of those beautiful-sounding engines to life is an experience I had never
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A close look at the award plaque and the Lindy trophy
had before but will always rememshyber We made our way down the taxiway made our radio calls and were heading down Runway 27 with the morning light behind us We climbed through the shallow cloud cover and in just a minute were on top with a beautiful morning sun shining off to my right as we headed north for our first rendezvous pOint the Pullman Michigan VOR (PMM) Lake Michigan came into view early on and seemed a frontier to be conshyquered but not frightening in our beautiful machine
Harry is a very experienced pilot with nearly 18000 flight hours in everything from Piper Cubs to corshyporate jets My job was to help keep track of our position and frequencies for our communication and navishygation Occasionally Harry would let me handle the flight controls while he set the GPS navigation rashydios and alternate frequencies and
checked our heading We were listenshying to air traffic control (ATC) out of South Bend Indiana and Chicago Center as we climbed to a cruising altitude of 4500 feet mean sea level Angling across Lake Michigan to the northwest can be a little unnerving for a student pilot like me but with Harrys careful eye on things I was comfortable just keeping an eye out watching his moves and listening to ATC Those beautiful round engines had such a low and quiet reassuring rumble too
Once you re halfway across the lake and lose sight of the eastern shore the western shore comes into view We had planned to stay east of Milwaukees airspace and arrive over the lakeshore heading just south of Fond du Lac Wisconsin Heading more westerly we were monitoring ATC at Oshkoshs Wittman Regional and Fond du Lac (FLD) Out of the haze just south of Fond du Lac we
came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
I so look forward to AirVenture 2009 ~
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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came upon what seemed like a hunshydred windmills generating electricity Quite a sight I must say just spinshyning gracefully in the wind About this time we heard from Oshkosh ATe There had been some delays and if we werent yet circling around Green Lake west of Ripon the enshytry point for Wittman Regional durshying AirVenture we had better find a place to just lazily bore a hole in the sky for a while until things eased up Harry decided to head toward Fond du Lac after a bit and set down for a while instead of burning off fuel at 50-plus gallons per hour even in effishyciency cruise About 15 minutes later a more serious ATC communication informed us that an incident had occurred at Wittman Regional and ATC was shutting down arrivals for at least an hour Now the fun began
Harry steered our Beech from the southwest making a nice gradual turn back to enter a left downwind for 36 at Fond du Lac We could see aircraft coming from Green Lake and Ripon like bees going back to the hive Once in the pattern we were able to get in line and were quickly turning onto left base for 36 Comshying directly at us on a right base for 36 was a Mooney About that time Fond du Lac tower said Twin Beech cleared to land on 36 Harry banked our bird in a smooth 90-degree low turn and headed for the numbers The last I saw of the Mooney off to my right was it beginning to climb out for a go-around and keeping its distance Thanks I thought to the Mooney pilot for giving way
With gear extended the Beech hit right beyond the numbers and Fond du Lac tower told us to highshyspeed taxi all the way to the end of the runway I got a good look at a lot of the planes sitting there as we hurried past and exited to the right Looking back down the runway was a sight to behold Anyone flying into a busy airport at the height of mass arrivals knows what I mean Back down the runway were at least a dozen or more planes on the ground or in the air on final each following the towers directions For
the next half-hour it never let up After an hour or so of waiting we
got news that Wittman was about to open we prepared ourselves for departure After a brief delay caused by other parked aircraft was solved by the line crew we made a hard left turn from our parking spot and then traveled down the taxiway for departure on 36 One or two aircraft departed ahead of us but soon we were off and turning west toward Rishypon and entry into the line for Witshytman Scanning for other planes I assisted Harry with information for approach and we fell in behind a couple of Cessnas heading up the tracks from the southwest toward Wittman We had to drop the gear and flaps and go into a near-stall configuration with an occasional chirp from the stall warning to stay behind them ATC asked us to do the usual wing waggle to make sure we were in communication About the time I thought Harry was going to take the high and wide approach of faster aircraft ATC told us to head dishyrectly east from our position over the town of Fisk and follow Fisk Avenue (County Road N) which would take us into an extended direct base entry for 36 at Wittman With light winds Wittman Regional was using both runways for arrivals We had maybe two other aircraft ahead of us and compared to our arrival at Fond du Lac this was a piece of cake That big runway was a sight to behold with all the planes and activity going on to our left It was magical Harry put the Beech down on the numbers and we followed directions like we were told We had our signs in the windows to alert the ground crew of our vintage tie-down destination
We barely had the Beech shut down and already we were drawing a crowd As we exited some admirers came up and were soon followed by a couple of the award judges They asked if we were entering the Twin Beech into the judging and we reshyplied yes They said they would be back the next morning at 9 am to take a look This was going to be anshyother part of the adventure this time
The next three to four hours were spent cleaning the plane in prepashyration for judging and setting out a display that detailed the restoration of this fine aircraft I couldnt believe I was here at AirVenture helping prepare a beautiful aircraft for judgshying I didnt mind dirtying up my AirVenture cap from the year before while getting to baby this beauty Anyone who knows about round enshygines knows they arent the cleanshyest but that makes them all the more unique After all how many times in ones lifetime do you get to fly in an honest-to-goodness classic airplane in exchange for preparing it for the highlight of being at AirVenture I still couldnt believe it
Once Harry and I finished cleanshying up and locking things up for the night we headed out for food and to check out some of the other aircraft Of course we spent some time talkshying to a lot of people about our ride and got to know some of the other Twin Beech parties around us all great people We had some visitors from all over including Australia Venturing through some of the classhysic vintage and antique aircraft on display we made our way down to the ultralight strip
Were fortunate our older brother Jim lives in the nearby Appleton area He and his wife Jan welcome us to AirVenture every year Jims not a pilot but enjoys the show enough to join us one day each year to see and hear the action and take plenty of pictures They knew of our plans but we called them to set up a meetshying place so we would have ground transportation to their place They were bringing their daughter Samanshytha and grandson Seth to see the planes Apparently Seth not quite 2 has a big interest in planes already We watched several of the parashyplanes and ultralights make several passes into and out of the grass strip and then we headed to Jims place for the night
Friday morning brother Jim offered the familys second car for us to drive to the show We arrived at the Twin Beech in time to wipe off most of the
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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dew and a few night bugs stuck on the surfaces set up the restoration photo display and chat with those who came by to admire the Beech One felshylow gave quite a compliment by sayshying he had been around AirVenture three days taking pictures and that the Twin Beech was the best looking of the lot The judges arrived promptly as planned and quickly went about their duties We could tell they were imshypressed but there are so many beautishyful aircraft here at Oshkosh Anyone would be hard-pressed to judge them all Several others stopped by includshying the pilot-owner Rod Lewis of the P-38 Glacier Girl That was a special treat We watched a lot of planes arshyrive through the rest of the morning monitoring ATC and admiring the controllers professionalism
Harry stayed with the plane and I headed out to check out the displays and consider some souvenirs from my stay My daughter Suzie had given me a gift of a ride in a plane owned and flown by EAA Friday afternoon found me in EAAs Ford Tri-Motor flying over part of Lake Winnebago and then over Oshkosh and near Appleton and back to AirshyVenture That is a whole other story What a grand plane and beautifully flown I might add I took in some warbirds on display ate an ice cream cone and some chicken submitted entries in various draWings watched some of the air show went through a couple of the commercial buildshyings checked out the Fly Market
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and finally made it back to the plane
A nice surprise was there waiting at the Twin Beech when I got back An invitashytion from the judging comshymittee to attend the Saturday evening awards ceremony had been handed to Harry Wow This was to be a real event-filled week Im sorry the owner Tony wasnt in attendance We called to let him know of the invitation I could hardly wait The rest of the evening was taken up with a few conversations with
admirers of the Beech and shutting down for the night We walked over to the Theater in the Woods to take in the program I believe that night included an interview with Jimmie Doolittles navigator Dick Cole That was primetime too
Saturday was taken up with trying to get in as much as possible with the commercial building displays more air show with warbirds and all takshying in the Ford exhibit checking out some of the newer designs and adshymiring the work of others The big aircraft at show central are always a hit as are the military aircraft demshyonstrations There was so much to see and do Of course the evening program was yet to come
Theater in the Woods is a special setting for AirVenture faithful This is where we get to know those who have made aviation such a grand unshydertaking Many notable figures have appeared there and the programs are always entertaining and rewarding The awards programs are no excepshytion and for me tonights was really special I can only imagine what it is like for those who have toiled for years and countless hours fine-tunshying an aircraft to receive a Lindy troshyphy That has to be truly rewarding
On stage sat the judges and what must have been 30 or more troshyphies A Lindy is a likeness statushyette of Charles Lindbergh a fitting award for the highest achievement in aircraft quality You could see the pride in the award winners as they
came to the stage to be recognized for their achievements We sat there not knowing for sure what the outshycome would be just that our attenshydance was requested Finally the moment came and brother Harry made his way to the stage to receive the Bronze Lindy for the Outstandshying Customized Contemporary Airshycraft Older brother Jim was there taking pictures as was I Harry acshycepted the award on behalf of Tony Miller the owner I was very proud to be even a small part of it all Back at the house that evening we remishynisced about the entire goings-on and then sadly began plans for Sunday and leaving AirVenture
The time had finally come to pack up and be on our way back home We contacted the volunteer shed handling departures and cranked up Again Harry had to make a hard turn out of our parking spot to avoid someshything this time a PA speaker pole Out on the taxiway there was quite a line Then to top it off a departing aircraft apparently lost a fuel cap Runway 18 was shut down to allow a couple of vehicles to cruise the runway looking for the missing cap When the runway was finally cleared the line moved fairly quickly under the watchful eye of the controllers I was able to take a couple of quick photo shots as we lined up on Runway 18 of the long runway ahead of us and a final shot of the miracle of AirVenture Winding up those beautiful radial engines we climbed out to about 500 feet until clear of the pattern and a few miles beyond and then began climbing to our cruise altitude for crossing Lake Michigan I go through withdrawal every time I leave I just pray I get the opportunity to return next year and the next and the next
Thank you EAA for one of my fondest memories of AirVenture and aviation Thank you Tony Miller for allowing me to be a part of showing your beautiful bird to an admiring aviation crowd Thank you brother Harry for taking me along once more I am blessed
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
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New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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Gene Chase a longtime VAA member is just one of the many volunteermembers who stand ready to help Like Volunteers like Dwayne and Sue Trovillion exemplify the otherVAA directors and director emeritus Genes a the camaraderie and spirit thats just part of the VAA great resource to the VAA staff throughout the year experience
throughout the country to support local vintage airplane owners and enshythusiasts groups All of these local chapters originate and distribute perishyodic aviation newsletters to their memshybers and supporters Many local VAA
chapters organize and conduct vintage airplane fly-ins throughout the counshytry each year for the benefit of area members and the entire vintage airshyplane community
e The VAA represents its more
Hundreds of showplanes means dozens of flightline volunteers who safely marshal the airplanes in and out of the parking areas
The VAAs Red Barn Hospitality Center and Headquarters is the hub of activshyity during the annual convention
than 7000 members and approxishymately 40000-50000 non member vintage airplane owners at FAA Agshying Airplane conferences each year
e The VAA nationally has 24 memshyber-elected officers and directors directly publicly and visibly in conshystant support of the vintage airplane movement 12 months each year
e The VAA has initiated and conshyducts the only annual Vintage Aircraft Hall of Fame program in the world
e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
e The VAA has just completed a new large one-of-a-kind Type Club and workshopmeeting and disshyplay facility on Wittman Field for the benefit of vintage aircraft type clubs of the nation
e During the annual AirVenture the VAA hosts member picnics member fly-outs and volunteer apshypreciation parties
e The VAA maintains an active membership of more than 7000 memshybers dedicated to vintage airplanes
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bull Through EAA the V AA has access to the highest reaches of the Departshyment of Transportation and FAA as well as the highest reaches of the poshylitical spectrum in Washington DC
bull The VAA recruits more than 500 volunteers each year at AirVenshyture to assist in hosting and to supshyport the 700-800 vintage airplanes that attend the largest sport aviashytion event in the world
bull As this summary is written VAA prepares to launch in midshyJuly 2009 the first issue of a new medium Vintage Airplane Online eshynewsletter It will be timely with current updates on the happenings in the world of vintage aircraft and will include a calendar of events a question and answer section photo gallery as well as links to interestshying websites Now where else can you be so current on vintage airshyplane matters as at your home or office computer screen Your cost Zero zilch all courtesy of the VAA
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The VAA maintains a complete information please booth at the Red Bam to dispense full information to all comers who may be new to AirshyVenture or to anyone with a question
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Aviation has a way of beshycoming a form of famshyily DNA and it is often passed down from genshyeration to generation
Thats only a theory but if you were to look at Bob McBrides famshyily and its C-1S0 taildragger youd definitely believe in the concept
There are five McBrides-Bob his wife Robbie and their three sons Bob Jr Chris and Greg-and the entire crew is severely infected 20 JULY 2009
with AV (aviation virus) They each have their own tastes and prefershyences but they all came together on the C-1S0TD
Bob the elder who now calls Mineola Texas home began his aviation career as a mechanic on Martin B-26s in the US Army Air Corps in 1942 The war was just barely over when he received his commission and was assigned as a flight engineer on B-29s
He was however determined to
fly and he kept after it until the brass gods on high assigned him to flight school in 1947
I was in the first class to reshyceive primary and basic instruction in T-6s That was the very first airshyplane we flew he laughs At that time Randolph AFB had all grass runways and it took me 10 hours to solo the old Texan which was about average
You cant help but wonder what it must have been like to be an inshy
The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
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The McBride family took home the Class I Single Engine (0-160 hp) Bronze Lindy for the outstanding conversion and restoration of their Cessna 150
structor at that time There you are in the back seat of an enormous airshyplane with a student up front who has never been in an airplane The program must have weeded out a lot of pilots and instructors
Bobs goal from the beginning had been to fly fighters but that wasnt to be
Most of the class went into Mustangs but I wound up doing advanced training in B-25s and went from there to instructing in the reserves
Bobs disappointment didnt last long because when his unit was acshytivated in 1951 he volunteered to go to Korea with the condition that he be trained to fly fighters
I went to Williams AFB and flew T-33s getting ready for F-80 fighter bombers overseas I wasnt crazy about the F-80 but at least it was a fighter I really wanted F-86s but they were all going to the more seashysoned handsII
Fate has a way of changing the cards an individua l holds in the oddest of ways but seldom is it as odd as the next turn of events
I was on leave during Christshymas of 51 from fighterbomber sch ool at Nell is I decided to try to drive through a blizzard which was a serious mistake I got stuck and nearly died before being resshycued However I had frostbite serishyous enough that they temporarily grounded me and I couldnt report as per my orders
When my new orders arrived it was to be part of the first class of pilots to be checked out in F-86s I was finally going to get to fly the fighter we all dreamed about
When he arrived in Korea he flew 100 combat missions in the F-86 with the 51st Fighter Group
Bob went on to a distinguished career in the Air Force which inshycluded 170 missions in Vietnam flying RF-101 Voodoos before retirshying as a fu ll colonel
Although the military kept him in the air and moving from base to base it wasnt enough to satisfy his aeronautical desires so he bought his first airplane
I was based at Offutt AFB in Omaha and kept my Swift right there on base The old man Gen LeMay had his Howard based there too Can you imagine keepshying a private airplane on a military base today
While in the military he bought and rebuilt a Navion and then moved up to a 53 Bonanza but he was alshyways looking for the next project
I was just out of the military and made it up to the last day of Oshshykosh in 1974 and was looking on the bulletin board at airplanes for sale There was a Piper PA-12 listed as being for sale in Minnesota and we decided to go look at it
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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With just a couple of slight changes to make the 150 a bit more accommoshydat ing to the modern operating environment the interior of the restored 150 hearkens back to a less complicated time of flight instruction and pershysonal transportation
We flew over to Spring Valley and the gentleman who had it for sale met us there It was David Pishyetenpol Bernies son He took us over to his dads hangar the same one that is now sitting on EAAs Pishyoneer Airport When he slid open the door I could hardly believe how pristine the PA-12 was It was beautishyful so naturally we bought it
That PA-12 turned into not only a family project but also a paint of family pride
Both sons Rob and Chris beshycame aircraft mechanics so when we decided to restore the Super Cruiser in 1990 Robert overhauled the engine and Chris painted it We
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installed a full gyro panel and did what we thought was a first-rate job on the airplane
Most of the rest of aviation agreed with them because the airshyplane won Best Piper-Other at Oshkosh Best PA-12 at Sentimenshytal Journey in Lock Haven as well as awards at almost every fly-in in which it was judged Even better again at Oshkosh it was awarded two Bronze Lindys
The taildragger 150 happened because Bob Jr bought a basketshycase 140
Dad kept looking at that airshyplane and liked it Bob Jr says Then he started looking around at
The distinct head-on view of the high-wing Cessna is punctuated by the deep black McCauley prop
Cessna 140As because their tapered metal wing was a little more effishycient than the early model wings
Bob the elder continues I liked the A Model 1405 but then I started looking even closer at conshyverting a square-tail 150 into a tailshydragger That would be the best of all worlds It had the Fowler flaps and better ailerons as well as a more modern panel The only thing wrong with the pre-63 straight-tail 150s was that the little wheel was on the wrong end So we decided to find an airplane and convert it
Just saying youre going to conshyvert a 150 to a taildragger sounds like its easy but its not There is a lot of work that has to be done and a lot of parts to be chased
Bob the younger says We bought a wrecked 120 fuselage which gave us two good gear legs and one good gearbox We bought the other one from Univair The STC for the conshyversion comes from David Lowe in Sacramento Kentucky
Of course even if you have the paperwork and some of the parts
Bob Jr mom Robbie father Bob Sr and brothers Chris and Greg all had a hand in creating a new-old classic
you still need an airplane to convert Bob Sr says I started the search
in the usual place Trade-A-Plane and found a listing for a 1963 C-lS0 which was the last year of the straight tail and had the best panel The airshyplane was in Mountain City Tennesshysee so we bought it then drove 950 miles to pick it up intending for one of us to fly it home
When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
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go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
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New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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Gene Chase a longtime VAA member is just one of the many volunteermembers who stand ready to help Like Volunteers like Dwayne and Sue Trovillion exemplify the otherVAA directors and director emeritus Genes a the camaraderie and spirit thats just part of the VAA great resource to the VAA staff throughout the year experience
throughout the country to support local vintage airplane owners and enshythusiasts groups All of these local chapters originate and distribute perishyodic aviation newsletters to their memshybers and supporters Many local VAA
chapters organize and conduct vintage airplane fly-ins throughout the counshytry each year for the benefit of area members and the entire vintage airshyplane community
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Hundreds of showplanes means dozens of flightline volunteers who safely marshal the airplanes in and out of the parking areas
The VAAs Red Barn Hospitality Center and Headquarters is the hub of activshyity during the annual convention
than 7000 members and approxishymately 40000-50000 non member vintage airplane owners at FAA Agshying Airplane conferences each year
e The VAA nationally has 24 memshyber-elected officers and directors directly publicly and visibly in conshystant support of the vintage airplane movement 12 months each year
e The VAA has initiated and conshyducts the only annual Vintage Aircraft Hall of Fame program in the world
e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
e The VAA has just completed a new large one-of-a-kind Type Club and workshopmeeting and disshyplay facility on Wittman Field for the benefit of vintage aircraft type clubs of the nation
e During the annual AirVenture the VAA hosts member picnics member fly-outs and volunteer apshypreciation parties
e The VAA maintains an active membership of more than 7000 memshybers dedicated to vintage airplanes
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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When we got there the airplane had no wings or tail on it At some point in the past the seller had taken it apart and taken it home so he wouldnt have to pay storshyage fees for it on the airport In fact when we arrived the wings and tail
The fastback version of the Cessna 150 makes a sharp-looking subject forwerent even at the airport a tailwheel conversion Many pilots claim that a fastback 150 is quicker thanHe finally delivered the wings the later Omni-Vision version of the airplaneand other missing parts at nine the
next morning Bob Sr remembers We all jumped on it with both took the airplane apart we found boards back to the location of the feet and we flew it at three that afshy it was pretty clean with no corroshy new gearboxes but you have to reshyternoon I had to laugh when one sion or hidden damage Part of the move the belly skin back to the old of the local guys said Yall act like STC requires that you remove the gearboxes You use the old skins as a NASCAR pit crew He was right tail cone to inspect for cracks beshy patterns but the new skins are all We were really working fore mounting the tailwheel castshy thicker mostly 0040 and 0050 In
Chris did most of the convershy ing and we did find a few minor addition there are some longitudinal sion work at his shop in Cedar ones there that we fixed stiffeners that have to be installed Park Texas and says When we We had to remove the pound1oor- We replaced the 150 mount
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with one from a 140A to get rid of the nose-gear mount bracketry and to clean up the cowling area
Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
Once the airplane was on its gear
it was Bob Jrs turn I painted everything inside inshy
cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
Bob Jr says We decided to
go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
These days so many families have a difficult time maintaining their relationships as the kids get older and new families begin to take precedent However it doesnt take more than a few minutes around the McBrides to realize that they definitely dont have that problem Love takes many forms and in this case it is shaped like a little red and white airplane and neither Bob Sr nor Robbie McBride would have it any other way
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
Can grow into something that looks like this It just takes time and patience and following directions
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
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Part of the firewall forward cleanup includes removing the steering mechanism and flush patching the holes in the boot cowl And of course you have to cut the nose-gear connections off the pedals themselves We spent quite a bit of time tidying up everyshything ahead of the firewall
When we started on the instrushyment panel the original idea was to hard-mount the entire thing but we decided to maintain the original panel on the right Well do a plasshytic overlay for the entire panel as soon as we can get Mom and Dad to stop flying it for a day or two
Dad chimes in We didnt plan on redoing the wingtips and the dorshysal but the dorsal was pretty sorry It wasnt straight because the mountshying flange was bent and probably always had been So Chris did a fl_
angectomy He cut the entire flange off made another and riveted it in place He also made up mounting flanges for the 152 wheelpants
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cluding the doorsills so we wouldnt have to worry about them when painting the rest of the airplane
We replaced all of the glass and when it came time to do the upholshystery [we] used Airtex seat kits and the wool headliner but I had to work it quite a bit to get a clean fit
Little by little as the airplane came together the pile of painted pieces continued to grow and Bob Jr kept moving them into his back bedroom for safekeeping
I took some time to build a regular paint booth for the fuseshylage and the wings and it was well worth the effort
As Oshkosh 2004 began bearing down on them Bob Jr says they were putting in 80-hour weeks tryshying to get everything done Plus their mother had just gotten out of the hospital from bypass surgery and didnt have enough strength to flare the PA-12 to land it For that reason alone they vowed to have the airplane at Oshkosh when their parents showed up
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go with a slightly modified 1955 Cessna 180 paint scheme but we had to do it in red Dad is a real red freak so there wasnt even a quesshytion what color the trim would be
He continues We really wanted to surprise them and in fact we sort of kept it a secret and they didnt see the airplane for the first time until the two of them walked up at Oshkosh Mom hadnt been out of the hospital very long at all and she absolutely lit up when she saw the airplane That was the efshyfect Chris and I had both been hoping for That made it all worthshywhile The fact that we received a Bronze Lindy made it even better
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Adhesives and bonding Part II
In this issue I want to follow up on the subject of a previous artishycle-bonding Specifically I want to comment on the use of epoxy resin on type-certificated aircraft But first let s explore where the FAA stands on this issue Advisory Circular 4313-1 B is the latest reshyvision and contains the approved adhesive for the construction and repair of type-certificated aircraft Chapter I Paragraph 1-4a (1 ) says to refer to the aircraft repair manual for acceptable adhesive selection Theres only one probshylem here-there are no structural repair manua ls for old airplanes Paragraph 1-4a (2) says adhesives must meet a military specificashytion (mil spec) aerospace material specification (AMS) or technical standard order (TSO) for Wooden Aircraft Structure Further Parashygraph 1-4b states Adhesive techshynology continues to evolve an d new types (meeting the requireshyments of Paragraph 1-4a may beshycome available in the future And fina lly Paragraph 1-4b (6) states Many new epoxy resin systems APPEAR to have excellent workshying properties Caution It is esshysent ial that only those products meeting the requirements of Parashygraph 1-4a be used in aircraft reshy
Fabricating a Command-Aire wing rib using aluminum fixture fabricated pair So where does that leave from an original rib The rib fixture was fabricated from a good originalus Currently there is no directly factory wing rib thus contour and spar spacing were accurate (there were approved type of epoxy adhes ive no drawings available for this aircraft) for the construction and repair of
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
Perhaps the best epoxy laminating system for
The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
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New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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The Command-Aire upper wings taking shape Note that the wings are bolted together to assure proper fit when aircraft will be rigged for flight At this point the leading edge plywood skin has not been installed Installation of the leading edge skin takes skill the job is made easier if one has done it before Nailing strips will be used to apply pressure to glue joints while the adhesive cures Nailing strips are cut from clear pine and will measure 1 18-inch thick and 1 14-inch to 12-inch wide depending on how wide the glue joint requires the clamping pressure to be applied
wood aircraft structures Each approval including the use of the WEST SYSTEM on an FAA type-certifishycated airplane has been done on an individual basis Dont look for any mil spec AMS or TSO approvshyals for epoxy adhesives for wooden aircraft to come jumping out of the woodwork The only way to use this new stuff is with an FAA field approval and they are beginning to come forth Before you start your restoration touch base with your local flight standards district office (FSDO)inspector to be sure you ve gotten approval to proceed with restoring your structure with epoxy
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The upper left wing for a New Standard ready for installation of plywood leading edge The lower skin is bonded in place and varnished well to resist water damage Outboard skin is bonded in place and nailing strips can be seen applying pressure to the adhesive joints Inboard skin has been prepared by applying several coats of varnish Note the rib spar and stringer locations do not have varnish but are the raw wood A light sanding just enough to scratch the surface will improve bonding strength Adhesive is applied to both surfaces to be bonded and the skin aligned and tacked in place at the upper corners Now the nailing strips are put into place to apply pressure to the joint Waxed paper is placed between nailing strips and skin Ill go into more detail as to how to align mark and apply skin in a future article
wood is the WEST SYSTEM manufactured by the Gougeon Brothers It was specifically designed for marine use and can be used on woven fibrous mateshyrials such as fiberglass Kevlar and graphite I have used it on both wood and fiberglass structures It works well is easy to mix (ratio of 5 part resin to 1 part hardener or 3 parts resin to 1 part hardener depending on what type mix you need) and is relashytively easy to spread When cured it is clear so the epoxy does not stain the wood structure Take a look at its website wwwWESTSYSTEMcom You can read product information and download the instruction manual The epoxy resin and hardener are available
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
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Cribbage Boards Handcrafted from wood they include game instructions pegs cards and historic information about the plane Game board can be removed from airplane for playing Nieuport28C1 52652955 $14900 Spruce Goose 52652956
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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from Aircraft Spruce amp Specialty Company or almost of C-clamps or para llel clamps Clamping pressure any marine supply business for those older adhesives is recommended at 125-150
There are precautions that must be observed when psi fo r softwoods and 150-200 psi for hardwoods If using any epoxy adhesive For old-timers who have one uses that much pressure with epoxy adhesives used Resorcinol or plastic resin (no longer approved) the pressure will drive the epoxy resin from the joint adhesives clamping pressure for spar splices or any and a wea k bond will occur A clamp that applies bonded joint with a large surface area was by means en ough pressure to bring surfaces into contact and
allows so me squeeze out of exshycess resi n is n eeded If possible spring-type clamps and caul blocks should be used
For rib fabrica t ion use brass n ails and nail through gussets for pressu re during cure For installashytion of p lywood skin over wood ribs use nailing strips and lI2-inch to S8-inch long p lain wire nails The nailing strips will be removed after cure
Note My m ain concern when u s in g epoxy res in is clamping pressure wh en the joint requires mech anical clam ping If mechanishycal clamping is required make sevshyeral test samples until the clamping pressure yields an airworthy joint An airworthy joint will cause wood The Command-Aire lower left wing with skin bonded to upper and to fail or show wood fibers in thelower surfaces Leading edge skin is birch while lower wing walk area bond line wh en tested to destrucshyis mahogany plywood Difference in color is apparent Both birch and tion Clamp cure and destruct test mahogany plywood are from the hardwood family of woods but birch is samples unt il you achieve the deshydenser and harder than mahogany It can be difficult to nail with brass nails sired results Most repairs to woodespecially if it is more than liB-inch thick st ructures are classified as rna j or repairs so the airframe and powshyerplant mechanic with inspection authorizat ion must conduct these tests since he or she will be signing to return the structure to service
Mixing th e WEST SYSTEM is easy Wh ile m a n y p r evio u s epshyoxy resi n s were q u ite visco u s (res ist ance to p our) t h e WEST SYSshyTEM is about the right consistency and is easily spread with a brush The mix ratio is specified by the manufacturer but is either 5 parts resin to 1
The quality of the bond joint is traced back to the person who mixed part hardener or 3 parts spread and clamped the adhesive Curing pressure temperature and resin to 1 part hardener clamping time are of the utmost importance One must always read depending on what youand follow directions exactly as specified by the manufacturer Always are using The res in is remember that the number one objective is safety make all the right moves part n umbe r lOS fast so a pile of parts like this h ardener i s 205 and 28 JULY 2009
slow hardener is 206 Ive used only the slow hardshyener You can purchase pumps that fit in the can that will meter out the exact amount of resinhardener
EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
container that is glass waxed or plastic foam Someshytimes the pumps that dispense the resin and hardshyener will spit some air particularly if they havent been used for a period of time In that case meter some resin into a cup then meter some hardener into the same cup If the pump does not emit any air with the material youre good to go If some air is emitted with either the resin or hardener throw the batch away and mix a new batch as the ratio of resin and hardener will not be correct
Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
Spreading Use a brush that doesnt shed bristles For hardwoods (plywood) I sand bonding surfaces lightly with a fine grade sandpaper just enough to
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Cribbage Boards Handcrafted from wood they include game instructions pegs cards and historic information about the plane Game board can be removed from airplane for playing Nieuport28C1 52652955 $14900 Spruce Goose 52652956
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
OTHER USES When we were restoring the
New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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e The VAA has initiated and conshyducts the only annual Vintage Aircraft Hall of Fame program in the world
e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
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We are the members of the Vintage Aircraft Association and we enjoy the special camaraderie of airplane people and flying the skies bonded together through the VAA to further our special field of enjoyment all the while protecting our aviation intershyests through the strength and camashyraderie of EAA and VAA We have so much for so very little
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
APRILS MYSTE RY A NS WER
We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Upcoming Major Fly-Ins Arlington Municipal Airport (AWOl Arlington Washington July 8-12 2009 wwwNWEAAorg
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EPOXY TIPS Mixing Use unwaxed paper cups do not use any
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Stir slowly for at least a minute to thoroughly mix the hardener with the resin Dont whip the mixture as you will introduce air bubbles into the adhesive Popsicle sticks or tongue depressors make good stir sticks
Once mixed the pot life will depend on ambient temperature and amount of epoxy in the cup Epshyoxy resins cure by chemical cross-linking of moleshycules The byproduct of this cure is exothermic heat (exotherm) Once the cure process kicks off the mashyterial will begin to gel Your project must be assemshybled and clamped before the material begins to gel If the resin is in a pot the gel time will be very limshyited due to exothermic heat buildup So don t mix too much material at one time Its always better to mix small quantities often than to throwaway large batches when they kick off
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put some scratches in the surface Softwoods (spruce) do not need sanding Spread an even coat on both surfaces to be bonded asshysemble and then apply approprishyate pressure
Clamping Apply only enough pressure to bring surfaces into good contact and allow for a small amount of squeeze out of resin Maintain pressure until resin has cured
Curing I usually leave clamps in place at least overnight and keep temperature to around 70degF (Im from the old school)
FILLERS There may be a time when a
filler material can be added to the epoxy resin mix to create a speshycial occasion product I have used two types microballoons and cotton linter Micro reduces the density of the epoxy and can be mixed to any consistency from syrup to peanut butter It depends on what you are going to do with it Micro and epoxy make good filler that is easily sanded but has very little structural strength Cotton linters and epoxy resin is strong when cured but it has little use on wood aircraft strucshytures Be sure to thoroughly mix the resinhardener first and then add in filler
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New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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Gene Chase a longtime VAA member is just one of the many volunteermembers who stand ready to help Like Volunteers like Dwayne and Sue Trovillion exemplify the otherVAA directors and director emeritus Genes a the camaraderie and spirit thats just part of the VAA great resource to the VAA staff throughout the year experience
throughout the country to support local vintage airplane owners and enshythusiasts groups All of these local chapters originate and distribute perishyodic aviation newsletters to their memshybers and supporters Many local VAA
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Hundreds of showplanes means dozens of flightline volunteers who safely marshal the airplanes in and out of the parking areas
The VAAs Red Barn Hospitality Center and Headquarters is the hub of activshyity during the annual convention
than 7000 members and approxishymately 40000-50000 non member vintage airplane owners at FAA Agshying Airplane conferences each year
e The VAA nationally has 24 memshyber-elected officers and directors directly publicly and visibly in conshystant support of the vintage airplane movement 12 months each year
e The VAA has initiated and conshyducts the only annual Vintage Aircraft Hall of Fame program in the world
e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
e The VAA has just completed a new large one-of-a-kind Type Club and workshopmeeting and disshyplay facility on Wittman Field for the benefit of vintage aircraft type clubs of the nation
e During the annual AirVenture the VAA hosts member picnics member fly-outs and volunteer apshypreciation parties
e The VAA maintains an active membership of more than 7000 memshybers dedicated to vintage airplanes
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bull Through EAA the V AA has access to the highest reaches of the Departshyment of Transportation and FAA as well as the highest reaches of the poshylitical spectrum in Washington DC
bull The VAA recruits more than 500 volunteers each year at AirVenshyture to assist in hosting and to supshyport the 700-800 vintage airplanes that attend the largest sport aviashytion event in the world
bull As this summary is written VAA prepares to launch in midshyJuly 2009 the first issue of a new medium Vintage Airplane Online eshynewsletter It will be timely with current updates on the happenings in the world of vintage aircraft and will include a calendar of events a question and answer section photo gallery as well as links to interestshying websites Now where else can you be so current on vintage airshyplane matters as at your home or office computer screen Your cost Zero zilch all courtesy of the VAA
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The VAA maintains a complete information please booth at the Red Bam to dispense full information to all comers who may be new to AirshyVenture or to anyone with a question
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We are the members of the Vintage Aircraft Association and we enjoy the special camaraderie of airplane people and flying the skies bonded together through the VAA to further our special field of enjoyment all the while protecting our aviation intershyests through the strength and camashyraderie of EAA and VAA We have so much for so very little
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THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to mystery planeeaaorg Be sure to include your name plus your city and state in the body of your note and put I(Month) Mystery Plane II in the subject line
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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New Standard biplane the facshytory made all wing and landing gear struts from round chromoly tubing This was faired to streamshyline with balsa wood leading and trailing edges then wrapped with pinked-edge surface tape Since this was a nonstructural fairing I decided to hot-wire cut polystyshyrene foam to the desired shape and fiberglass the outside surshyfaces I used a medium-weight glass fiber cloth and the WEST SYSTEM epoxy resin I should note that epoxy resin will stick to polystyrene foam but polyshyester (boat resin) will cause the
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foam to soften When the lamshyinated glass fiber is in the liB stage of cure (resin begins to gel and exothermic heat increases) the glass can easily be trimmed to shape using a razor blade knife or scissors After complete cu re I sanded the fairings to fit each strut I then mixed resin and added cotton linters to make a thick paste and stuck the fairings to the struts applying pressu re with masking tape until cured Adding filler material (cotton linters) to epoxy resin makes a good gap-filling adhesive but it doesnt sand easily so wipe off excess resin that squeezes out I then sanded and wrapped the fairings with pinked-edge surface tape and finished with the PolyshyFiber process It worked great and is very lightweight
Epoxy resins can be useful for repair of structures due to their flexibility Perhaps the FAA door to granting approval for use on type-certificated aircraft has opened ever so slightly There are some FAA field approvals available for use of WEST SYSTEM epoxy resins in wood structures Some of the type clubs would have a 337 available Its only a matter of time now
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THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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e The VAA conducts and hosts the largest gathering of the finest showshyclass vintage airplanes in the world each year at AirVenture in an area specifically reserved for vintage airshycraft It hosts each member attending the convention in a newly enlarged most well-known and highly recogshynized meeting place in the world for vintage airplane fans the one and only internationally famous Red Barn and now the 7500-square-foot VAA Type Club Hangar
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY
THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
Send your answer to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answer needs to be in no later than August 15 for inclusion in the October 2009 issue of Vintage Airplane
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
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THIS MONTHS MYSTERY PLANE COMES TO US FROM A SUGGESTION BY WES SMITH OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
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Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
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types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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We didnt fool many of you with Kreutzer K-S built by Air Transport changed to the T-6 and put into proshythe April Mystery Plane Heres the Manufacturing for LA businessman duction for a Latin American market first answer we received Allan Hancock in 1929 (NC99SY) Julian A Smith
The April Mystery Plane is a Later the K-Sdesignation was Hernando Mississippi
34 JULY 2009
Hayden Hamilton who serves as the managing edishytor for the American Aviashytion Historical SOCiety sent us a bit more on the K-S
The mystery aircraft apshypears to be a Kreutzer Air Coach Model K-S designed and manufactured by the Joseph Kreutzer Corp (Airshycraft Division) of Los Angeshyles California This aircraft design was issued ATC 223 September 6 1929 This aircraft was an enhanced version of the Kreutzer Air
Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
Sources US Civil Aircraft Joseph P Juptner Vol 3 pp 71-73 Aerofilescom - Aircraft A to Z
Other correct answers were received from Gary Gray Darmstadt Germany Dave Dent Camden New South Wales Australia Frank Pavliga Randolph Ohio Jack Erickson State College Pennsylvania Arthur L Bartley Rochester Hills Michigan Thomas Lymburn Princeton Minnesota Clarence E Hesser St Augustine Florida and Ken Krohncke Rio Vista California
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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36 J U LY 2009
BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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In EMs online Calendar of Events you can search for events at any given time within acertain radius of any airport by entering the identifier or a ZIP code and you can further define your search to look for just the types of events youd like to attend
We invite you to access the EM online Calendar of Events at httpwwweaaorgjcalendar
Upcoming Major Fly-Ins Arlington Municipal Airport (AWOl Arlington Washington July 8-12 2009 wwwNWEAAorg
EAA AlrVenture Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) Oshkosh Wisconsin July 27middotAugust 2 2009 wwwAirVentureorg
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Coach introduced in 1928 which was offered in two models (ATCs 170 and 171) and were designed for the smaller airlines operating over rugged and desolate country The company also thought the design would appeal to business owners looking for extra comfort and the safety of multi engine flying
The design created by Albin K Peterson was a baby tri-motor powered by three Kinner K-5 100shyhp engines The cabin could accommodate six passhysengers in a spacious cabin that was equipped for heat and ventilation The windows were made from shatterproof glass thereby providing a perception of added safety The total 300 hp provided more than ample reserve power that translated into higher pershyformance while providing ample power for continshyued flight if an engine where to fail
The Air Coach saw utilization with airlines opshyerating in Arizona and Louisiana both of which offered bleak terrain where the margin of safety was most likely appreciated by all on board Kinner Enshygine Co operated a K-5 as a demonstration aircraft flying around the country to show off their engines Production was suspended with only about nine planes being produced one of the many aircraft companies that folded during the Great Depression An attempt was made in 1935 to revive the design by the Air Transport Mfg Co but this venture was not successful
Specifications Length 33 feet 6 inches Wingspan 48 feet 10 inches Height 9 feet 6 inches Wing Area 315 square feet Empty Weight 2745 pounds Gross Weight 4443 pounds Useful Load 1698 pounds Fuel 85 gallons
Maximum Speed 130 mph Cruising Speed 110 mph Landing Speed 45 mph
Service Ceiling 17000 feet Range 520 miles
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valley Giving new meaning to the golden age of aviation
a topic that many of us are reluctant to think about How long will
my loved ones be able to live indeshypendently and if they should come to a point in time when they need assistance with their daily living whats the next step How about an assisted-living facility designed espeshycially for aging aviators Thanks to one womans personal inspiration there actually is such a place
Marilyn Taylor of Eagles Nest Aviator Homes Inc has a soft spot for aviators having been closely asshysociated with them for years-espeshycially Swift owner and pilot Mark Holliday her longtime boyfriend and stalwart supporter in the Ea-
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BY SPARKY BARNES SARGENT
gles Nest project Taylors vision of an aviation-themed assistedshyliving facility was first inspired by Dr James Parks founder of the Lashyfayette Foundation and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum at Platte Valley Airpark in Colorado He was in the late stages of Alzheimers disease and was living with one of his children His son Andy (who now heads the foundation and museum) would bring him to the airport on weekshyends and even though he could not communicate very well his avishyation vocabulary was still strong reflects Taylor thoughtfully He would sit for hours and watch the activity and completely enjoy his lifelong passion-he seemed to be
alive and thriving despite his conshydition When the family could no longer care for him at home and he had to go into an assisted-livshying home he immediately started to go downhill The facility was nice and clean with good care but there was nothing to stimulate his mind and keep his passion and memoshyries alive When I would visit him he did not talk or communicate at all except the one time when he showed me an old picture of his dad in his World War I aviator unishyform-he said very clearly Thats my dad he was a pilot I thought then that there should be some way to provide a familiar atmosphere for seniors during this phase of
Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
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Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys living area is cozy with its gas log fireplace and comfortable seating
their life During the course of the next several years I had the same type of experience with numershyous facilities accommodating both Marks mom and my dad This just reinforced my philosophy that seshyniors should be able to enjoy their passions through every phase of their lives
Taylors father passed away in 2006 and she says she used her minimal inheritance to purchase a piece of property adjacent to the airport prepared a marketing plan promoting my unique concept to a local bank and in conjunction with the Small Business Administrashytion was able to secure financing The design and building process presented challenge after challenge but Taylor persisted and in February 2009 Eagles Nest opened its doors
If youre not familiar with the goals of an aSSisted-liVing environshyment (as opposed to nursing care) this excerpt from the Eagles Nest at Platte Valleys marketing plan spells it out succinctly By definition asshysisted living is a long-term care alshyternative for seniors who need more assistance than is available in a reshytirement community but who do not require the heavy medical and nursing care provided in a nursing facility Security and independence privacy and companionship and physical and social well-being are the primary characteristics of an asshy
sisted living setting If you are familiar with these
types of facilities think about the ones youve visited Within most asshySisted-living facilities seniors find themselves living with a group of folks with whom they have few if any personal connections and very little in common And so even though they are surrounded by their peers they may feel disconnected from their lifelong careers hobbies and paSSiOns as well as from their friends and families with whom they shared these activities The lack of a common bond can make it a challenge for seniors to strike up new friendships and maintain their lifelong interests and it isnt unusual to observe decreasing amshybition and motivation in their daily lives-just as Taylor observed
Yet consider the possibilities for seniors who are surrounded by a community of those who share their own interests-in this case aviation These proverbial birds of a feather can collectively fan the embers of their aviation memories and keep them glowing brightly Such a scenario holds the potenshytial for new friendships and camashyraderie to be easily established from a mutually held longtime passion and of course for an abundance of hangar flying and tall tales
To that end Eagles Nest has been designed to reflect the hisshy
tory and nostalgia of flight in evshyery room This country-style home is tastefully adorned with aviation memorabilia and artifacts comshyplementing a general 1940s deshycor Monthly rental rates include nutritious home-cooked meals a 24-hour snack bar medication assisshytance daily housekeeping personal laundry service and an in-house beautybarber shop Trained staff members are on-site 24 hours a day and residents also enjoy events and scheduled outings
Additionally a cozy library houses a collection of aviation books and publications and theres even a game room with several comshyputer flight simulators where resishydents can exercise their flight skills with a variety of aircraft The nine private bedrooms a guest suite and the activity area have been named in honor of Colorado aviation pishyoneers who have been longtime friends and supporters of the Platte Valley Airpark community
The most enticing aspect of Eashygles Nest is that residents can enjoy hearing and seeing local aircraft flyshying virtually every day-they can even judge landings from their comshyfortable front porch all with the magnificent scenery of the Rockshyies as a backdrop Located in Weld County Eagles Nest is adjacent to Platte Valley Airpark a privately ownedpublic-use airport and the Vintage Aero Flying Museum Resishydents have abundant opportunities to visit the museum and participate in educational programs where they are invited to share their wealth of aviation knowledge and experience with local youth
With a caring heart and emshypathetic spirit guiding her Tayshylor has worked hard to bring her unique idea into reality Smiling she shares that Eagles Nest at Platte Valley welcomes retired aviators aviation enthusiasts and seniors of all interests who would enjoy and thrive in a nostalgic country atmoshysphere and a loving home environshyment If youd like to know more call 303-536-4880
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
EM calendar of Aviation Events Is NowOnline EMs online Calendar of Events is the go-to
spot on the Web to list and find aviation events in your area The usermiddotfriendly searchable format makes it the perfect web-based tool for planning your local trips to aflymiddotin
In EMs online Calendar of Events you can search for events at any given time within acertain radius of any airport by entering the identifier or a ZIP code and you can further define your search to look for just the types of events youd like to attend
We invite you to access the EM online Calendar of Events at httpwwweaaorgjcalendar
Upcoming Major Fly-Ins Arlington Municipal Airport (AWOl Arlington Washington July 8-12 2009 wwwNWEAAorg
EAA AlrVenture Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) Oshkosh Wisconsin July 27middotAugust 2 2009 wwwAirVentureorg
Colorado Sport International Air Show and Rocky Mountain Regional Flymiddotln Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) Denver Colorado August 22middot23 2009 wwwCOSportAviationorg
MId-Eastern Regional Fly-In Grimes Field Airport (174) Urbana Ohio September 12middot13 2009 wwwMERFIinfo
Copperstate Regional Fly-In Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) Casa Grande Arizona October 22middot24 2009 wwwCopperstateorg
Southeast Regional Fly-In Middleton Field Airport (GZH) Evergreen Alabama October 23-25 2009 wwwSERFIorg
US Sport Aviation Expo Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) Sebring Rorida January 21middot24 2010 wwwSportmiddotAviationmiddotExpocom
AERO Frledrlchshafen Messe Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen Germany April 8-11 2010 wwwAero-Friedrichshafencomhtmlen
Sun n Fun Flymiddotln Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) Lakeland Rorida April 13-18 2010 wwwSunmiddotNmiddotFunorg
Virginia Regional Festival of flight Suffolk Executive Airport (SFQ) Suffolk Virginia May 22middot23 2010 wwwVirginiaFlyinorg
For details on hundreds of upcoming aviation happenings including EM chapter fly-ins Young Eagles rallies and other local aviation events visit the EM Calendar of Events located at wwwEAAorgicaendar
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SERVICES
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LLC Annual Inspections Airframe
recovering fabric repairs and
complete restorations Wayne A
Forshey AampP amp IA 740-472-1481 Ohio
and bordering states
OA 6to~1J of tA 19J9 datlollal ofl~ cJszcI The only in-depth DVD Story of the 1939 National Air Races available
bull A90 min in-depth narrated story
bull Also 300 archival photos
bull Military aerial maneuvers
bull Thompson Greve and Bendix Races
bull Includes 45 min of outstanding COLOR film ~~
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Advertising Closing Dates 10th of second month prior to desired issue date (ie January 10 is the closing date for the March issue) VAA reserves the right to reject any advertising in conflict with its policies Rates cover one insertion per issue Classified ads are not accepted via phone Payment must accompany order Word ads may be sent via fax (920-426shy6845) or e-mail (cassadseaaorltJ using credit card payment (all cards accepted) Include name on card complete address type of card card number and expiration date Make checks payable to EAA Address advertising correspondence to EAA Publications Classified Ad Manager PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086
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Sell 39 Luscombe 8 Ser 863 65 Cont TI
1700 5MOH 60 TIAF 1400 LSA qualified
Mich based Don 734 646 0025
MISCELLANEOUS
Flying wires available 1994 pricing Visit
wwwflyingwirescom or call 800shy
517-9278
bull Aerobatic acts its all here fflt ~~~~ Only $2895 + SampO
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Are you nearing completion of restoration Or is it done and
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u Send us a 4-by-6-inch print a commercial source (no
ome printers please-those
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Dave Clark Steve Krog 635 Vestal Lane 1002 Heather Ln
Plainfield IN 46 168 Hartford WI 53027 317middot839middot4500 262-966middot7627
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john S Copeland Robert D Bob Lumley I A Deacon Street 1265 South 124th Sl
Northborough MA 01532 Brookfie ld WI 53005 508-393-4775 262middot782-2633
(opeland JjllfJocom lumperexfcpccoln
Phil Coulson S H Wes Schmid 2841 5 Springbrook Dr 2359 Le feber Avenue
Lawton MI 49065 Wauwatosa WI 53213 269-624-6490 41 4-77 1-1545
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Indianapolis IN 46278 317-293-4430
daleayem sll com
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Thanks to James W Campbell MLS librarian and curator of manuscripts of The Whitney Library at the New Haven Museum amp Historical Society in New Haven Connecticut we have this shot of the Kimball Model K Beetle
Dear HG In the February 2009 issue of Vinshy
tage I was extremely interested in the Mystery Plane explanation on page 30 the Curtiss UN-4 Jenny with the Sikorsky wing
For many years probably since I was about 17 I have known about one of those airplanes I used to ride my bicycle up to Bethany Airport Bethany Connecticut and recall vivshyidly just such an airplane there It was always known at the field as the Sikorshysky-winged Jenny There is a wondershyful photo of that very airplane taken at Bethany with the pilot Gus Graf (early parachute jumper) and his good friend Leo B Kimball standing by the airplane On the rudder near the top is the number 6703 and on the rear side of the fuselage is the Connecticut 38 JULY 2009
state registration No 30 Leo Kimball was involved with
testing of the airplane mainly beshycause of his engine the Kimball Beetle shown in the photo It was a seven-cylinder radial 120 hp at 1850 rpm and was the Model K Only five of the Kimball radial engines were built and none survive You may also read about the history of the Kimball Aircraft Corporation in the American Aviation Historical Society Journal Fall 2008 Vol 53 Number 3 which I researched since I was a kid and finally wrote for the Journal Mr Kimball and his family lived across the street from us and I was good friends with him and his children for many years
Ev Cassagneres Cheshire Connecticut
EM calendar of Aviation Events Is NowOnline EMs online Calendar of Events is the go-to
spot on the Web to list and find aviation events in your area The usermiddotfriendly searchable format makes it the perfect web-based tool for planning your local trips to aflymiddotin
In EMs online Calendar of Events you can search for events at any given time within acertain radius of any airport by entering the identifier or a ZIP code and you can further define your search to look for just the types of events youd like to attend
We invite you to access the EM online Calendar of Events at httpwwweaaorgjcalendar
Upcoming Major Fly-Ins Arlington Municipal Airport (AWOl Arlington Washington July 8-12 2009 wwwNWEAAorg
EAA AlrVenture Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) Oshkosh Wisconsin July 27middotAugust 2 2009 wwwAirVentureorg
Colorado Sport International Air Show and Rocky Mountain Regional Flymiddotln Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) Denver Colorado August 22middot23 2009 wwwCOSportAviationorg
MId-Eastern Regional Fly-In Grimes Field Airport (174) Urbana Ohio September 12middot13 2009 wwwMERFIinfo
Copperstate Regional Fly-In Casa Grande Municipal Airport (CGZ) Casa Grande Arizona October 22middot24 2009 wwwCopperstateorg
Southeast Regional Fly-In Middleton Field Airport (GZH) Evergreen Alabama October 23-25 2009 wwwSERFIorg
US Sport Aviation Expo Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) Sebring Rorida January 21middot24 2010 wwwSportmiddotAviationmiddotExpocom
AERO Frledrlchshafen Messe Friedrichshafen Friedrichshafen Germany April 8-11 2010 wwwAero-Friedrichshafencomhtmlen
Sun n Fun Flymiddotln Lakeland Linder Regional Airport (LAL) Lakeland Rorida April 13-18 2010 wwwSunmiddotNmiddotFunorg
Virginia Regional Festival of flight Suffolk Executive Airport (SFQ) Suffolk Virginia May 22middot23 2010 wwwVirginiaFlyinorg
For details on hundreds of upcoming aviation happenings including EM chapter fly-ins Young Eagles rallies and other local aviation events visit the EM Calendar of Events located at wwwEAAorgicaendar
Something to buysell or trade
Classified Word Ads $550 per 10 words 180 words maximum with boldface lead-in on first line
PROPELLERS
CARVE YOUR OWN PROP-THE EASY WAY
THE ALL POWER-TOOL METHOD
Complete information material and tool
list with many photos and diagrams
Anyone who can build an airplane can
do this Contact Dan at hespersew
aolcom for free information e-package
details photos overview and ordering info
SERVICES
Always Flying Aircraft Restoration
LLC Annual Inspections Airframe
recovering fabric repairs and
complete restorations Wayne A
Forshey AampP amp IA 740-472-1481 Ohio
and bordering states
OA 6to~1J of tA 19J9 datlollal ofl~ cJszcI The only in-depth DVD Story of the 1939 National Air Races available
bull A90 min in-depth narrated story
bull Also 300 archival photos
bull Military aerial maneuvers
bull Thompson Greve and Bendix Races
bull Includes 45 min of outstanding COLOR film ~~
Classified Display Ads One column wide (2167 inches) by 1 2 or 3 inches high at $20 per inch Black and white only and no frequency discounts
Advertising Closing Dates 10th of second month prior to desired issue date (ie January 10 is the closing date for the March issue) VAA reserves the right to reject any advertising in conflict with its policies Rates cover one insertion per issue Classified ads are not accepted via phone Payment must accompany order Word ads may be sent via fax (920-426shy6845) or e-mail (cassadseaaorltJ using credit card payment (all cards accepted) Include name on card complete address type of card card number and expiration date Make checks payable to EAA Address advertising correspondence to EAA Publications Classified Ad Manager PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086
AIRCRAFT
Sell 39 Luscombe 8 Ser 863 65 Cont TI
1700 5MOH 60 TIAF 1400 LSA qualified
Mich based Don 734 646 0025
MISCELLANEOUS
Flying wires available 1994 pricing Visit
wwwflyingwirescom or call 800shy
517-9278
bull Aerobatic acts its all here fflt ~~~~ Only $2895 + SampO
wwwNationaIAirRacesnet 1-888-NAR-8886
TAiLWW66LS
OS~KOS~ - ~Otv1pound AGAill
HAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING
Are you nearing completion of restoration Or is it done and
re busy flying and showing it If so wed like to hear from
u Send us a 4-by-6-inch print a commercial source (no
ome printers please-those
a 4-by-6-inch 300-dpi digital photo A JPG from your 25-megapixel (or higher) digital
camera is fine You can burn photos to a CD or if youre on a high-speed Internet connection you can e-mail them along with a text-only or Word document describing your airplane (If your e-mail program asks if youd like to make the photos smaller say no) For more tips on creating photos we can publish visit VAAs website at wwwvintageaircraftorg Check the News page for a hyperlink to Want To Send Us A Photograph
bullbulliiil~r~nts just dont scan well) or jiiiiibullbullbull~
For more Information you can also emiddotmall us at vlntagealrcrafteaaorg or call us at 920middot426middot4825
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
Pres ident Vice-President Geoff Robison George Daubner
1521 E MacGregor Dr 2448 Lough Lane New Haven IN 46774 Hartford WI 53027
260middot493-4724 262middot673-5885 chie(7025aolcom gdaubflerleaaor8
Secretary Treasurer Steve Nesse Charles W Harris
2009 Highland Ave 72 15 East 46th St Albert Lea MN 56007 Tulsa OK 74147
507-373-1 674 918-622middot8400 5t1 lCs2009iivecom cw hh v5u com
DIRECTORS Steve Bender Jeannie Hill
85 Brush Hill Road PO Box 328 Sherborn MA 01770 Harvard IL 60033-0328
508middot653-7557 815middot943middot7205 ss t ] ()comcast flet
David Bennet t Espie Butch joyce375 Killdeer Ct 704 N Regional Rd
Lincoln CA 95648 Greensboro NC 27409 916-645-8370 336-668middot3650
antiquerinreacli coIIJ winrisockaoicoln
Jerry Brown Dan Knutson 4605 Hickory Wood Row 106 Tena Marie Circle Greenwood IN 46143 Lodi WI 53555
317-422middot9366 608-592-7224 Ibro1Vn4906(Paoicol11 iodiCl lbcharternel
Dave Clark Steve Krog 635 Vestal Lane 1002 Heather Ln
Plainfield IN 46 168 Hartford WI 53027 317middot839middot4500 262-966middot7627
davfcpdattnet sskrogaol com
john S Copeland Robert D Bob Lumley I A Deacon Street 1265 South 124th Sl
Northborough MA 01532 Brookfie ld WI 53005 508-393-4775 262middot782-2633
(opeland JjllfJocom lumperexfcpccoln
Phil Coulson S H Wes Schmid 2841 5 Springbrook Dr 2359 Le feber Avenue
Lawton MI 49065 Wauwatosa WI 53213 269-624-6490 41 4-77 1-1545
rcoJllSoI15 16Cscom sllscllmidgmail com
Dale A Gustafson 7724 Shady Hills Dr
Indianapolis IN 46278 317-293-4430
daleayem sll com
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Robert C Brauer EE Buck Hilbert 9345 S Hoyne 8102 Leech Rd
Chicago IL 60643 Union IL 60180 805-782-97I3 85-923-4591
pllOtOpilotaolcOlll bllck7acgmail com
Gene Chase Gene Morri s 2159 Carlton Rd 5936 Steve Court
Oshkosh WI 54904 Roanoke TX 76262 920-23 1-5002 817-491-9110
GRCHAcharternet genemurri5Cizarternct
Ron ald C Fritl John Turgyan 15401Sparta Ave ro Box 219
Kent City MI 49330 New Egypt Nj 08533 616-678-50 12 609middot758-29 10
rFril zpathwaynetcom j rtu rgyafl4aoJcom
~
Membershi~ Services Directory ENJOY THE MANY BENEFITS OF EAA AND ~ EAAs VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION ~TM
EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873
Web Sites Wlvwvintageairaa(torg WlVWairventllreorg WlVWeaaorgmemberbenefits E-Mail vintageairaaleaaorg
EAA and Division Membership Services (800 AM-700 PM Monday- Friday CST) 800-564-6322 FAX 920-426-4873 wwweaaargjmemberbenefits membershipeaaarg
- New renew memberships -Address changes -Merchandise sales -Gift memberships
EM AirVenture Oshkosh 888-3224636 wwwairventureorg airventureeaaarg Sport PilotjLightmiddotSport Aircraft Hotline wwwspartpilatarg877-359-1232 sportpilateaaarg
PrOgramS and Activities
Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 dwalkereaaar Education Aeroscholars 920-426-6570 mrobbinseaaorg
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Membership in the Experimenta l Aircraft C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m ay jo in the ASSOciation Inc is $40 fo r on e year inelud- International Aerobatic C lub Inc Divi shying 12 issu es of SPORT AVIATION Family s io n a nd receive SPORT AEROBATICS m em bership is an additional $10 annually m agazine fo r a n additional $45 p e r year Junio r Membership (under 19 years of age) EAA Membership SPORT AEROBAT-is available at $23 annually All ma jor credit ICS magazine and one year membership cards accepted for membersh ip (Add $16 for in the lAC Division is available fo r $55 Foreign Postage) p e r year (SPORT AVIATION m agazin e
n o t includ e d ) (Add $18 for Foreig n EAA SPORT PILOT Postage)
C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m a y a dd EAA SPORT PILOT m agazine fo r an additio nal WARBIRDS $20 per year Current EAA m embers may join the EAA
EAA M e mb e rs hip and EAA SPORT Wa rbirds of Am erica Division and receive PILOT m agazine is availa ble fo r $40 p e r WARBIRDS m agazine fo r an addition al $45 yea r (SPORT AVIATION m agazine n o t in- p er year eluded) (Add $16 for Foreign Postage) EAA M e mbe rship WARBIRDS m agashy
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EAA Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE Please submit your re mittan ce with a magazine and one year membership in the EAA ch eck o r draft drawn on a United Sta t es Vintage Aircraft Association is available for $46 bank payable in United Sta tes dollars Add per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magazine no t in- required Fo reign Postage amount fo r each eluded) (Add $7 far Foreign Postage) m embership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
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Robert C Brauer EE Buck Hilbert 9345 S Hoyne 8102 Leech Rd
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Gene Chase Gene Morri s 2159 Carlton Rd 5936 Steve Court
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Web Sites Wlvwvintageairaa(torg WlVWairventllreorg WlVWeaaorgmemberbenefits E-Mail vintageairaaleaaorg
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Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 dwalkereaaar Education Aeroscholars 920-426-6570 mrobbinseaaorg
920-426-6880 www airacademy org airacademyeaaorg- EM Air Academy 920-426-6823 scholarshipseaaorg- EM Scholarships
Right Instructor information 920-426-6801 wwweaaorgjnafi tdeimereaaOrg Li brary Services Research 920-426-4848 slurveyeaaOrg
Benefits AUA Vintage Insurance Plan 800-727-3823 wwwauaonlinecam EM Aircraft Insurance Plan 866-6474322 wwweaaarg memberbenefits membershipeaaarg EM VISA Card 800-853-5576 ext 8884 EM Hertz Rent-A-Car Program 800-654middot2200 wwweaaarg hertz membershipeaaorg EM Enterprise Rent-A-Car Program 877421middot3722 wwweaaorgjenterprise membershipeaaarg Editorial wwwvintageaircraftorg920-426-4825 vintageeaaorg VAA Office FAX 920-426-6579 tboakseaaorg
EAA Members Information Une 888-EAA-INFO (322-4636) Use this tollmiddotfree number for information about AirVenture Oshkosh aeromedical and technical aviation questions
chapters and Young Eagles Please have your membership number readywhen calling Office hours are 815 am - 500 pm (Monday - Friday CST)
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION EAA lAC
Membership in the Experimenta l Aircraft C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m ay jo in the ASSOciation Inc is $40 fo r on e year inelud- International Aerobatic C lub Inc Divi shying 12 issu es of SPORT AVIATION Family s io n a nd receive SPORT AEROBATICS m em bership is an additional $10 annually m agazine fo r a n additional $45 p e r year Junio r Membership (under 19 years of age) EAA Membership SPORT AEROBAT-is available at $23 annually All ma jor credit ICS magazine and one year membership cards accepted for membersh ip (Add $16 for in the lAC Division is available fo r $55 Foreign Postage) p e r year (SPORT AVIATION m agazin e
n o t includ e d ) (Add $18 for Foreig n EAA SPORT PILOT Postage)
C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m a y a dd EAA SPORT PILOT m agazine fo r an additio nal WARBIRDS $20 per year Current EAA m embers may join the EAA
EAA M e mb e rs hip and EAA SPORT Wa rbirds of Am erica Division and receive PILOT m agazine is availa ble fo r $40 p e r WARBIRDS m agazine fo r an addition al $45 yea r (SPORT AVIATION m agazine n o t in- p er year eluded) (Add $16 for Foreign Postage) EAA M e mbe rship WARBIRDS m agashy
z in e and o n e year m e mb e rship in th e VINTAGE AIRCRAFf ASSOCIATION Wa rbirds Divisio n is ava ila ble fo r $55 pe r
C urre nt EAA m e mbe rs m ay jo in th e yea r (SPORT AVIATION magazine n o t in-Vintage Airc ra ft Asso cia tio n a nd receive eluded) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage) VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine for an adshyditional $36 per year FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS
EAA Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE Please submit your re mittan ce with a magazine and one year membership in the EAA ch eck o r draft drawn on a United Sta t es Vintage Aircraft Association is available for $46 bank payable in United Sta tes dollars Add per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magazine no t in- required Fo reign Postage amount fo r each eluded) (Add $7 far Foreign Postage) m embership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy2009 by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved VINTAGE AIRPLANE (USPS 062-750 ISSN 0091-69431 is published and owned exclusivelyby the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EAA
Aviation Center 3000 PobereznyRd PO Box3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 e-mail vintageaircrafteaaorg Membership to Vintage Aircraft Association which includes 12 issues of Vintage Airplane magazine is $38 per year for EAA members and 546 for non-EAA members Periodicals Postage paidat OshkoshWisconsin54901and at addhional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 PM 40063731 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Pitney Bowes IMS Station A PO Box 54 Windsor ON N9A 6J5 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AiRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surface mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken
EDITORIAL POLICY Members are encouraged to submh stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely whhthecontributor No remuneration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 920-426-4800
EAAregand EAA SPORT AVIATIONreg the EAA Logoreg and Aaronautica are registered trademarks trademar1ts and seVice mar1lts of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc The use of these trademarks and service marks without the pennission of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is strictly prohibited
40 JULY 2009
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Drive SmartI 2010 Taurus SHO Powerful Efficient and Advanced
bull New 35L V6 Gasoline Direct Injection Twin-Turbo EcoBoosfM Engine
bull 365-HP Delivers V8 Power with V6 Fuel Economy bull Six-Speed Paddle-Shifted Automatic Transmission bull HID Headlamps bull Intelligent Access with Push-Button Start bull BLlSregBlind Spot Information System bull Voice-Activated Navigation System bull Reverse Sensing System
LIN COL N MIIIICWI bull SOS Post-Crash Alert System bull SecuriCodetrade Keyless Entry bull SYNCregVoice-Activated Communications and
Entertainment System bull Rain Sensing Wipers
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
Pres ident Vice-President Geoff Robison George Daubner
1521 E MacGregor Dr 2448 Lough Lane New Haven IN 46774 Hartford WI 53027
260middot493-4724 262middot673-5885 chie(7025aolcom gdaubflerleaaor8
Secretary Treasurer Steve Nesse Charles W Harris
2009 Highland Ave 72 15 East 46th St Albert Lea MN 56007 Tulsa OK 74147
507-373-1 674 918-622middot8400 5t1 lCs2009iivecom cw hh v5u com
DIRECTORS Steve Bender Jeannie Hill
85 Brush Hill Road PO Box 328 Sherborn MA 01770 Harvard IL 60033-0328
508middot653-7557 815middot943middot7205 ss t ] ()comcast flet
David Bennet t Espie Butch joyce375 Killdeer Ct 704 N Regional Rd
Lincoln CA 95648 Greensboro NC 27409 916-645-8370 336-668middot3650
antiquerinreacli coIIJ winrisockaoicoln
Jerry Brown Dan Knutson 4605 Hickory Wood Row 106 Tena Marie Circle Greenwood IN 46143 Lodi WI 53555
317-422middot9366 608-592-7224 Ibro1Vn4906(Paoicol11 iodiCl lbcharternel
Dave Clark Steve Krog 635 Vestal Lane 1002 Heather Ln
Plainfield IN 46 168 Hartford WI 53027 317middot839middot4500 262-966middot7627
davfcpdattnet sskrogaol com
john S Copeland Robert D Bob Lumley I A Deacon Street 1265 South 124th Sl
Northborough MA 01532 Brookfie ld WI 53005 508-393-4775 262middot782-2633
(opeland JjllfJocom lumperexfcpccoln
Phil Coulson S H Wes Schmid 2841 5 Springbrook Dr 2359 Le feber Avenue
Lawton MI 49065 Wauwatosa WI 53213 269-624-6490 41 4-77 1-1545
rcoJllSoI15 16Cscom sllscllmidgmail com
Dale A Gustafson 7724 Shady Hills Dr
Indianapolis IN 46278 317-293-4430
daleayem sll com
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Robert C Brauer EE Buck Hilbert 9345 S Hoyne 8102 Leech Rd
Chicago IL 60643 Union IL 60180 805-782-97I3 85-923-4591
pllOtOpilotaolcOlll bllck7acgmail com
Gene Chase Gene Morri s 2159 Carlton Rd 5936 Steve Court
Oshkosh WI 54904 Roanoke TX 76262 920-23 1-5002 817-491-9110
GRCHAcharternet genemurri5Cizarternct
Ron ald C Fritl John Turgyan 15401Sparta Ave ro Box 219
Kent City MI 49330 New Egypt Nj 08533 616-678-50 12 609middot758-29 10
rFril zpathwaynetcom j rtu rgyafl4aoJcom
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Membershi~ Services Directory ENJOY THE MANY BENEFITS OF EAA AND ~ EAAs VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION ~TM
EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873
Web Sites Wlvwvintageairaa(torg WlVWairventllreorg WlVWeaaorgmemberbenefits E-Mail vintageairaaleaaorg
EAA and Division Membership Services (800 AM-700 PM Monday- Friday CST) 800-564-6322 FAX 920-426-4873 wwweaaargjmemberbenefits membershipeaaarg
- New renew memberships -Address changes -Merchandise sales -Gift memberships
EM AirVenture Oshkosh 888-3224636 wwwairventureorg airventureeaaarg Sport PilotjLightmiddotSport Aircraft Hotline wwwspartpilatarg877-359-1232 sportpilateaaarg
PrOgramS and Activities
Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 dwalkereaaar Education Aeroscholars 920-426-6570 mrobbinseaaorg
920-426-6880 www airacademy org airacademyeaaorg- EM Air Academy 920-426-6823 scholarshipseaaorg- EM Scholarships
Right Instructor information 920-426-6801 wwweaaorgjnafi tdeimereaaOrg Li brary Services Research 920-426-4848 slurveyeaaOrg
Benefits AUA Vintage Insurance Plan 800-727-3823 wwwauaonlinecam EM Aircraft Insurance Plan 866-6474322 wwweaaarg memberbenefits membershipeaaarg EM VISA Card 800-853-5576 ext 8884 EM Hertz Rent-A-Car Program 800-654middot2200 wwweaaarg hertz membershipeaaorg EM Enterprise Rent-A-Car Program 877421middot3722 wwweaaorgjenterprise membershipeaaarg Editorial wwwvintageaircraftorg920-426-4825 vintageeaaorg VAA Office FAX 920-426-6579 tboakseaaorg
EAA Members Information Une 888-EAA-INFO (322-4636) Use this tollmiddotfree number for information about AirVenture Oshkosh aeromedical and technical aviation questions
chapters and Young Eagles Please have your membership number readywhen calling Office hours are 815 am - 500 pm (Monday - Friday CST)
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION EAA lAC
Membership in the Experimenta l Aircraft C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m ay jo in the ASSOciation Inc is $40 fo r on e year inelud- International Aerobatic C lub Inc Divi shying 12 issu es of SPORT AVIATION Family s io n a nd receive SPORT AEROBATICS m em bership is an additional $10 annually m agazine fo r a n additional $45 p e r year Junio r Membership (under 19 years of age) EAA Membership SPORT AEROBAT-is available at $23 annually All ma jor credit ICS magazine and one year membership cards accepted for membersh ip (Add $16 for in the lAC Division is available fo r $55 Foreign Postage) p e r year (SPORT AVIATION m agazin e
n o t includ e d ) (Add $18 for Foreig n EAA SPORT PILOT Postage)
C urrent EAA m e mbe rs m a y a dd EAA SPORT PILOT m agazine fo r an additio nal WARBIRDS $20 per year Current EAA m embers may join the EAA
EAA M e mb e rs hip and EAA SPORT Wa rbirds of Am erica Division and receive PILOT m agazine is availa ble fo r $40 p e r WARBIRDS m agazine fo r an addition al $45 yea r (SPORT AVIATION m agazine n o t in- p er year eluded) (Add $16 for Foreign Postage) EAA M e mbe rship WARBIRDS m agashy
z in e and o n e year m e mb e rship in th e VINTAGE AIRCRAFf ASSOCIATION Wa rbirds Divisio n is ava ila ble fo r $55 pe r
C urre nt EAA m e mbe rs m ay jo in th e yea r (SPORT AVIATION magazine n o t in-Vintage Airc ra ft Asso cia tio n a nd receive eluded) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage) VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine for an adshyditional $36 per year FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS
EAA Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE Please submit your re mittan ce with a magazine and one year membership in the EAA ch eck o r draft drawn on a United Sta t es Vintage Aircraft Association is available for $46 bank payable in United Sta tes dollars Add per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magazine no t in- required Fo reign Postage amount fo r each eluded) (Add $7 far Foreign Postage) m embership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy2009 by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved VINTAGE AIRPLANE (USPS 062-750 ISSN 0091-69431 is published and owned exclusivelyby the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EAA
Aviation Center 3000 PobereznyRd PO Box3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 e-mail vintageaircrafteaaorg Membership to Vintage Aircraft Association which includes 12 issues of Vintage Airplane magazine is $38 per year for EAA members and 546 for non-EAA members Periodicals Postage paidat OshkoshWisconsin54901and at addhional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 PM 40063731 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Pitney Bowes IMS Station A PO Box 54 Windsor ON N9A 6J5 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AiRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surface mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken
EDITORIAL POLICY Members are encouraged to submh stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely whhthecontributor No remuneration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 920-426-4800
EAAregand EAA SPORT AVIATIONreg the EAA Logoreg and Aaronautica are registered trademarks trademar1ts and seVice mar1lts of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc The use of these trademarks and service marks without the pennission of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is strictly prohibited
40 JULY 2009
Drive one
Drive SmartI 2010 Taurus SHO Powerful Efficient and Advanced
bull New 35L V6 Gasoline Direct Injection Twin-Turbo EcoBoosfM Engine
bull 365-HP Delivers V8 Power with V6 Fuel Economy bull Six-Speed Paddle-Shifted Automatic Transmission bull HID Headlamps bull Intelligent Access with Push-Button Start bull BLlSregBlind Spot Information System bull Voice-Activated Navigation System bull Reverse Sensing System
LIN COL N MIIIICWI bull SOS Post-Crash Alert System bull SecuriCodetrade Keyless Entry bull SYNCregVoice-Activated Communications and
Entertainment System bull Rain Sensing Wipers
Drive one
Drive SmartI 2010 Taurus SHO Powerful Efficient and Advanced
bull New 35L V6 Gasoline Direct Injection Twin-Turbo EcoBoosfM Engine
bull 365-HP Delivers V8 Power with V6 Fuel Economy bull Six-Speed Paddle-Shifted Automatic Transmission bull HID Headlamps bull Intelligent Access with Push-Button Start bull BLlSregBlind Spot Information System bull Voice-Activated Navigation System bull Reverse Sensing System
LIN COL N MIIIICWI bull SOS Post-Crash Alert System bull SecuriCodetrade Keyless Entry bull SYNCregVoice-Activated Communications and
Entertainment System bull Rain Sensing Wipers
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