July 1992 Vol 20 No7

CONTENTS 1 Straight amp LevelEspie Butch Joyce

2 Youngest AntiqueClassic Owner Jeannie Hill

3 AlC Newscompiled by HG Frautschy

5 Vintage LiteratureDennis Parks Page 2

8 When the Antiques Went To War Roger Thiel

15 Auster Jl AutocratNorm Petersen

18 What Our Members Are Restoring Norm Petersen

20 Shrimp CreolelDon Toeppen

23 Snap-ons Hints For Restorers Page 8

24 AntiqueClassic Photo Contest Rules

25 Pass It To BucklEE Buck Hilbert

26 Mystery PlaneGeorge Hardie

27 Calendar

28 Welcome New Members

31 Vintage Trader

Page 20

FRONT COVER From Athol Idaho Roger and Belinda Dunhams Fairchild 45A is one of only 16 bu ilt by Fa irchild a t Hagerstown Maryland between 1936 and 1939 4 examples of the 5-place Sedan

~i~=3 of the Air remain on the FAA register Photo during EAA OSHKOSH 91 -=~lIWirE4IAl~ by Budd Davisson

BACK COVER As tribute to the mission of the Civi l Air Patrol celebrating their 50th Anniversary during 1992 weve reproduced a copy of Zack Mosleys Smllin Jac k comic strip from the Chicago Tribune dated May 2 1943 Mosely seNed as a Colonel in the CA P during WW II and contibuted his a rt expertise to the mission of the CAP Reprinted courtesy of Zack Mosley and Tribune Media SeNices

Copyright copy 1992 by the EAA AntiqueClassic Division Inc All rights reserved VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-69431 is published and owned exclusively by the EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3096 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903middot3086 Second Class Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices The membership rate for EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc is $2000 for current EM members for 12 month period of which $1200 is for the publication of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership is open to all who are interested in aviation POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueIClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivelY of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surtace mail ADVERTISING - AntiqueClassic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertiSing We invile constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken EDITORIAL POLICY Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor No renumeration is made Material should be sent to EdHor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 4141426-4800

The words EM ULTRALIGHT FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION and the logos of EM EM INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION EM ANTIQUECLASSIC DMSlON INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUBS WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered tradematks THE EM SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EM AVIATION FOUNDATION and EM ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION are trademarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the aibove association is strictly prohibited

EDITORIAL STAFF Publisher

Tom Poberezny

Vice-President Marketing and Communications

Dick Matt

Editor-in-Chief Jack Cox

Editor Henry G Frautschy

Managing Editor Golda Cox

Art Director Mike Drucks

Computer Graphic Specialist Olivia L Phillip

Assistant Computer Graphic Specialist Sara Hansen

Advertising Mary Jones

Associate Editor Norm Petersen

Feature Writers George Hardie Jr Dennis Parks

Staff Photographers Jim Koepnick Mike Steineke

Carl Schuppel Donna Bushman

Editorial Assistant Isabelle Wiske

EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC OFFICERS

President Vice-President Espie Butch Joyce Arthur Morgan

604 Highway St 3744 North 51st Blvd Madison NC 27025 Milwaukee WI 53216

91942HJ216 414442-3631

Secrelory Treosurer Steven C Nesse EE Buck Hilbert

2009 Highland Ave PO Box 424 Albert Lea MN 56007 Union IL 60180

507373-1674 815923-4591

DIRECTORS John Bemdt Robert C Sob Brauer

7645 Echo Poinl Rd 9345 S Hoyne Cannon Falls MN 55009

507263-2414 39~M~~11ls Gene Chase John S Copelond

2159 Carlton Rd 28-3 Williamsbur8 Ct Oshkosh WI 54904 Shrewsbuty MA 1545

414231-5002 508842-7867 Phil Coulson George Doubner

28415 Springbrook Dr 2448 Lough Lone Lawton MI 49065 Hartford WI 53027

616624-6490 414673-5885 Chartes Harris Stan Gomoll

3933 South Peoria 104290th Lone NE PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105 Minn6f~~_mfgt434 919742-7311

Dole A Gustafson Jeannie Hill 7724 Shady Hill Dr PO Box 328

Indianapolis IN 46278 Harvard IL 60033 317293-4430 815943-7205

Robert lickteig Robert D Bob Lumley 1708 Bay Oaks r 1265 South 124th St

Albert Lea MN 56007 Brookfield WI 53005 507373-2922 414782-2633

Gene Morris George York 115C Steve Court RR 2 181 Sloboda Av

Roanoke TX 76262 Mansfield OH 44906 817491-9110 419529-4378

SH Wes Schmid 2359 Lefeber Avenue Wauwatosa WI 53213

414771-1545

DIRECTOR EMERITUS SJ Willman

7200 SE 85th Lane Ocala FL 32672

904245-7768

ADVISORS Jimmy Rollison

823 Carrion Circle Winters CA 95694-1665

916795-4334

Dean Richardson Geoff Robison 6701 Colony Dr 1521 E MacGregor Dr

Madison WI 53717 New Haven IN 46774 608833-1291 219493-4724

STRAIGHT amp LEVEL

by Espie Butch Joyce

Its hard to believe that EAA Oshshykosh 92 Convention time is here again Soon we will be seeing friends that we have not seen since last year Finally we will be able to see that finished aircraft project that weve been hearing about for years Unless you have personally restored an aircraft its tough to imshyagine the time it takes to complete an award winning airplane Its quite an effort

The judges will have their hands full this year trying to choose the trophy winning aircraft This year we will also be setting up the guidelines and difshyferent categories for our new Contemshyporary Class aircraft in preparing the judging that will take place starting during the 1993 Convention

I am again going to list all of the different chairmen who will be working the AntiqueClassic area at Oshkosh 1992 This is for your information in case you have a question If you think you have a few spare moments during your visit perhaps you would care to volunteer some time to one of these areas Youll find it is very rewarding

Here are the AC Chairmen Butch Joyce AC Convention

Management 919427-0216 919573shy3843

John Berendt AC Forums 507263shy2414

Art Morgan AC Parking 414442shy3631

Dale Gustafson Antique Awards 317293-4430

George York Classic Awards 419529-4378

Gloria Beecroft AC Manpower 213427-1880

Steve Nesse Parade of Flight 507373-1674

Kate Morgan AC Headquarters Staff 414442-3631

Geoff Robison AC Security 219493-4724

Larry DAtillo AC Press 414784shy0318

Stan Gomoll AC Maintenance 612784-1172

Charlie Harris Interview Circle 918742-7311

Julia amp Joe Dickey AlC Type Club Headquarters 813342-6878

Jeannie Hill AC Picnic Pioneer Video 815943-7205

Bob Lumley AC Fly-Out 414782shy2633

Dean Richardson Hall of Fame Reunion Contemporary A wards 608297 -8801

John Copeland Participant Plaque 617366-7245

Bob Brauer Chapter amp Membership Booth 312779-2105

Jack McCarthy AC Photo Contest 317371-1290

George Meade AC Workshop 414926-2428

Phil Coulson AC Flight Safety 616624-6490

Bob Wallace OX-5 Pioneers 301686-9242

Janet Bennett AC Data Processing 715287-4262

Phyllis Brauer AC Aerogram 312779-2105

If while at Oshkosh you would like to be of help check in at the Manpower booth Having all of these chairmen is evidence that we will be involved in quite a bit of activity in the AntishyqueClassic area

For your planning purposes the AnshytiqueClassic picnic will take place Sunshyday night at the Nature Center Tickets for the picnic will be on sale at the AlC

Headquarters building until sold out so stop by and buy your tickets early

The Parade of Flight will be flown on Monday afternoon You can contact Steve Nesse in advance at 507373shy1674 or at Oshkosh in person

The AC Fly-out will take place Tuesshyday morning This is a fun time Check with Headquarters and Bob Lumley for details

George Meade Chairman of the AC Workshop tent called to report that during the week of Oshkosh they will be recovering a 1933 Pietenpol that has not been recovered since it was built Those people who would like to see the recovering procedure would be well served to stop by Mr Don Stretch from Airtex will be installing a headliner in a Cessna 170 on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday there in the AC Workshop tent This should be very interesting for anyone who has thought of tackling this job on their airplane

One event that we are considering for the future is an antique airplane air race If anyone has any ideas or suggestions as to how this could be conducted I would welcome your comments

We welcome the Contemporary Class of aircraft to our parking area this year We are especially proud to recogshynize these aircraft and owners

At AC Headquarters (the Red Barn) stop by and rest on your porch Kate Morgan and Ruth Coulson will be glad to show you what we have to offer There will also be a represhysentati ve of the AntiqueClassic inshysurance program from AUA Inc to answer any questions you may have about this program

You also need to check out the Type Club tent This area is improving every year thanks to Julia and Joe Dickeys hard work during the year and at the Convention

The main thing that I want at the Convention is for everyone to have a good time Should you need any assisshytance feel free to look me up

Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

YOUNGEST ANTIQUECLASSIC OWNER ROBERTCOSMAN t by Jeannie Hill

(Ale 629)

Editors note Our winner of th e Anshytique Classic Di vision s Y ounges t Anshytique or Classic Owner Contest is 15 year old Robert Cosman of Huntley I L H e will be awarded a J year extension of his Antique Classic division membership Oth er entries were received f rom Tim Woelk Cochenour Ontario Canada Dan Linn Co lleyville TX (the young man whose leiter was the spark that initiated the contest - thanks Dan) and Jack Stephenshyson of Gilford N H who purchased his first airplane at age 19 To fill in some of the deshytails of Bob Cosman s young aviation cashyreer I asked AntiqueClassic Director Jeannie Hill to pay him a visit since she lives a short flight away in Harvard IL What she found was quite remarkable and it leaves me feeling a little bit better about the fu ture ofsport aviation and its potential for positively shaping young peoples lives See if you don t agree -HGF

Just as fisherman boast about the one that got away pilots are always talkin g about hidden treasures waiting to be di sshycovered in old barns and machine sheds around the country Somewhere out there is an undiscovere d aeronautical ge m somebodys drea m shot a project or a

story so unique that when it is discovered it makes the rest of the aviation commushynity rea lly stand up and take notice I d like to tell you about one of those finds

It a ll started a couple of weeks ago when HG Frautschy the Editor of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE asked me to fly over to Huntley Illinois to meet with a young ma n na med Bob Cosman who had e nshytered th e Youngest Antique or Classic Owner Contest sponsored by th e EAA AntiqueClassic Division In his lette r to HG Bob stated that his a irplane was a Cessna 120 and th at he has owned it for two years His age (15) qualified him as th e winne r so photos and a n inte rvi ew were the next order of business Because I live only about thirty miles from Huntley I could carry out the assignment

Aft er a brief conversation we set up a time a nd a place to mee t With camera and tripod (PA-22 that is) in hand I set out to find the field where the 120 is based

Thanks to exce llent directions in no tim e a t all I was se tting down on a 2300 foot green velvet billiard table approprishyately named Magic Carpet Field If th e airstrip and th e surrounding farm site we r e n t invitin g e nough ce rtainly the sight of a shiny 120 pa rk ed up against a bright red machine shed was The whole setting was pict uresque to say the least

Winner of the Youngest Antique or Classic Owner Contest sponsored by EAAs AntiqueClassic Division 15 year old Bob Cosman plans on becoming an aeronaushytical engineer As his Mom says Bobs always been goal oriented

But the best was yet to come As I taxied closer to one of the sharpest

and cleanest 120s Id ever seen its owner beca me more visib le His jacke t had CESSNA tast e fully e mbroidered alo ng the sleeve As soon as I got close enough to see that shy smile and that twinkle in his eye I knew I had found gold

After brief introductions I began askshying the pertine nt ques tions My queries were nothing o ut of ordinary The anshyswers on the other hand were quite the opposite

The young man humble as a rock ex plained that he first started flying when he was just a little boy with the owner of the strip the late Howard Reshydeker Mr Redeker built owned and

(continued on page 22)

2 JULY 1992

compiled by HG Frautschy

AlC ELECTION BALLOTS

A typographical error on the ballot for the election of officers and directors of the AntiqueClassic division has caused a bit of confusion for a few of our members Next to the heading for DIRECTORS at the bottom of page 24A the note Vote for Eight appears when in actuality there are nine directors up for reelection None of the Directors or officers are running against anyone else and the correct total of votes is reflected in the voting instrucshytions Please be sure to vote for nine (9) directors when voting and send in your ballots

OSHKOSH 92 NOTES

Here are a few notes of interest conshycerning AntiqueClassic activities during EAA OSHKOSH 92

CONTEMPORARY AIRCRAFT - Parkshying for showplane quality Contemporary Class airplanes will be available in the AnshytiqueClassic area for the first tim e this year Judging standards will be set up this year by the committee headed by AC Adshyvisor Dean Richardson If you have exshypertise in this class of aircraft built beshytween January 1 1956 and December 31 1960 the Judging committee would like to hear from you Contact Dean prior to the convention at 608-833-1291 or inquire at the AC Headquarters (the Red Barn) Please use the prop cards that will be given to you when you register - It makes conshytacting you easier and allows your editor the chance to reach you should your airshycraft be a candidate for an art icle in VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE I will be actively looking for stories on Contemporary Airshycraft during EAA OSHKOSH 92 so polshyish up your airplanes ANTIQUE PARKING - Continuing the parking arrangements for antiques started last year the first half of the area south of the Theater in the Woods will be reserved for Antique aircraft parking No camping will be allowed in this area and additional security will be provided in the evening ANTIQUECLASSIC FLY-OUT - If you think its fun in Oshkosh wait until you try Shawano WI Check with the volunteers at the AC Membership and Information Booth for the date time and time of the pilots briefing for the annual fly-out to this picturesque airport on the shores of Shawano Lake

ANTIQUE CLASSIC CHAPTER LUNCH - As a way of saying thank you to A C Chapter officers and members there will be an AntiqueClassic Chapter lunch during EAA OSHKOSH 92 For additional information regarding the date time and cost please stop by the AnshytiqueC lassic Membership and Informashytion Booth ANTIQUECLASSIC MEMBERSHIP AND INFORMATION BOOTH - Once again Dave Bennett and his hardy gang of volunteers will be manning the booth to renew current members enroll new memshybers and handing out copies of AEROshyGRAMS the AntiqueClassic Division s chronicle of daily activities They will also be taking reservations for the AnshytiqueClassic Chapter picnic as well as providing AntiqueClassic Chapter starter kits The booth will be open from 800 am until the airshow starts in the afternoon beginning on Thursday July 30 AEROGRAMS - Every day during the Convention Phyllis Brauer and her volunshyteer assistants will be publishing AEROshyGRAMS the Convention newsletter of the A ntiqueClassic division Copies are free and may be obtained at the AC Red Barn sales area Type Club Tent Airline Pilots Tent OX-5 Tent Showplane Campshying registration or the AC Membership and Information Booth Pick up a copy each day to help you plan your Convenshytion activities The AEROGRAM Staff will also mail the full weeks edition for a $300 donation to the AntiqueClassic division Contact Bob Brauer at the Information Booth or write either Phyllis or Bob Brauer at 9345 S Hoyne Av Chicago IL 60620 ANTIQUECLASSIC PICNIC - On Sunshyday August 2 1992 the AntiqueClassic annual picnic will be held at the EAA Nashyture Center A roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served Pioneer Airshyport will be available for tours and the new runway should have a fine layer of grass on it by the time Convention rolls around

Don t spend your time fighting the trafshyfic in town come on over to the AC picnic for a good time and good food Tickets will be available from Jeannie Hill or any of th e other hard working vo lunteers at the AC Red Barn

Also don t forget to have your EAA OSHKOSH flight line pass made into a convenient-to-wear button Priced at on ly $1 they re a handy way to keep your pass

in view without the hassle of a piece of string wrapped around your shirt button Get yours at the AC Red Barn

There are always a number of pleasant things to do at EAA OSHKOSH and the AntiqueClassic area is always a hotbed of activity Come on out relax on the Red Barns porch and enjoy yourself

EAA PLANS ADDITIONAL AUTOGAS TESTS

EAA is initiating materials compatibilshyity testing to determine the suitability of current fuel system materials for use with oxygenated auto gasoline Primary intershyest is in the use of MTBE in autogas The EAA test program will include other ethers such as ETBE and TAME which appear to be candidates for future oxyshygenates Testing will also include gasohol (10 ethanol) although using gasohol preshysents operationa l and materials problems that need to be addressed

The EPA now requires the use of oxyshygenates in auto gasol ine in areas which are not in compliance with clean air regulashytions Auto gasoline containing MTBE (now considered an oxygenate ) is being more widely used since its introduction in the mid 70s as an octane enhancing blendshying agent Gasoline with MTBE favors aircraft use having good anti-knock charshyacteristics and lower volat ility

100LL avia tion gaso line will also be tested with MTBE because of its potential for replacing lead to achieve a level of 100 octane when 100LL must be eliminated in the market place

EAA is also working with AOPA and Petersen Aviation Minden NE to conshyvince the FAA that the use of MTBE be immediately approved given the long hisshytory of successful use as a blending agent predating EAAs autogas flight testing in the early 1980s

FAA PLANS TO RESCIND MODE S TRANSPONDER REQUIREMENT

On May 29 FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind the Mode S transponder requirement for aircraft operating under FAR Part 91 Afshyter months of debate the FAA detershymined that it was necessary to have a pubshylic comment period rather than establishing a final rule to dismiss the reshyquirement that transponders newly inshystalled after July 1 1992 be the advanced

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

gtshyr -e lt) ~ -

Boy you sure can get a lot in those Cessna 140s Ann How- ~ ell s 140A probably had a bit of help bringing all of this

The location for the AntiqueClassic Fly-out during EAA campsite equipment from Downers Grove IL to the EAA FlyshyOSHKOSH Shawano Mun icipal Airport on the shores of In She was probably doing fine until it came time to find a Shawano lake Wisconsin It features a 1775 ft grass strip and spot in the baggage compartment for the flagpoles and the a 2600 ft paved runway as well as a seaplane ramp wagon

Mode S version de leting the insta ll at ion requ ireme n t of non-type certificated engines and proshyWhen the Mode S rule was originally Mode S transponders in general aviation pellers FAA is preparing information

contemplated in 1982 it was with the anshy aircraft operated under FAR 91 has been which will result in an Advisory Circular to ticipation that FAAs Mode S ground senshy issued by the FAA We will have an addishy guide potential manufacturers through the sors would be in place by 1991 A deadline tional update on this issue in the next edishy type certification process FAA has set a date for newly installed transponders tion of VINTAGE A IRPLANE goal to complete this effort which would which would provide for interference-free permit application for these airplanepowshyradar transmission and reception was esshy FAA READY FOR SIMPLIFIED erplant combinations by August 1 tablished for mid-1992 CERTIFICAnON APPLICA nONS bull Two-place fixed-gear airplanes with

By late last year two events dictated type certificated e ngines and propellers the need for FAA to postpone or rescind Setting the stage for an increase in parts and gross weights of 3000 pounds or less the requirement for Mode S transponder that are used in the construction of certishy can use simplified methods of complying installation First FAA recognized that it fied airplanes the FAA has begun to acshy with existing FAR Part 23 A number of was not reasonable to expect that the cept applications for aircraft certification kit manufacturers have cooperated in the ground-based sensors would be fully opershy using the simp lified type certification development of a simplified methods docshyational until at least 1996 process that has been developed by EAA ument which wi ll be available as an FAA

Second the recommendations of the FAA and the Sport Aircraft Manufacturshy Advisory Circular by early August Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Commitshy ers Association Those interested in submitt ing applicashytee (ARAC) were sent to the FAA for Were open for business said FAAs tion under the Small A ircraft Certification consideration EAA has served on and director of aircraft certification Craig Compliance P rogram shou ld contact supported the recommendations of the Beard to aviation certification officia ls D o nald Michal manager of t he FAA committee Based on the technical probshy from around the world at the recent Ninth Chicago A ircraft Certifcation Office 2300 lems that Mode S system presently exshy Annual FAA - Joint Aviation Authorities E Devon Avenue Room 232 Des Plaines hibits and the recomendations of the Meeting in Toronto Officia ls have IL 60018 or call (312) 694-7357 ARAC that additional studies should be worked diligen tly with ind ustry represenshydone the FAA has decided that the Mode tatives for one and a half years to develop FAA MICROFICHE RECORDS S requirement should be rescinded It this program including the identification should be pointed out that this does not of simplified methods of complying with As mentioned in the article on the Civil mean the requirement could not be reinshy existing FAR Part 23 Part 23 sets forth A ir Patrol starting on page 9 you can obshystated at some time in the future Howshy the certification process for a standard airshy tain microfiche copies of the records on ever once the rule is deleted before the worthiness certificate FAA has now finalshy your airplane direct ly from the FAA To FAA could resurrect the requirement for a ized material necessary for applicants for recieve your copy send $200 for the Mode S transponder another NP R M airplanes with type certifica ted engines search fee and 35cent for each microfiche to would have to be issued and propellers and is accepting applicashy

While the FAAs NPRM requests comshy tions Microfiche Records ments to the Docket the installation date There are three avenues availab le for FAA Aircraft Registry requirement of July 1 has necessitated a app licants desi ring to fi ll the need for airshy PO Box 25082 minimum 30-day comment period Not planes to be used for trai ning and recreshy Oklahoma City OK 73125 surprisingly the responses to the FAA s ational purposes Docket are overwhelmingly favorab le to bull Two-place airplanes with type certifishy $400 is normally enough to cover the the rescission of the Mode S requirement cated engines and propellers gross weights cost for most aircraft Be sure and include considering the $3500 price tag of the of 1654 pounds or less and 45 kn ot or less your N-number and aircraft serial number transponder If any members are planning stall speed can utilize J ARIVLA requireshy with your request on installing a transponder during the ments to achieve certification under FAR month of July call EAA Information Sershy Part 23 (Continued on page 22) vices 4141426-4800 to ensure the rule bull For JARIVLA airplanes powered by 4 JULY 1992

YOUNGEST ANTIQUECLASSIC OWNER ROBERTCOSMAN t by Jeannie Hill

(Ale 629)

Editors note Our winner of th e Anshytique Classic Di vision s Y ounges t Anshytique or Classic Owner Contest is 15 year old Robert Cosman of Huntley I L H e will be awarded a J year extension of his Antique Classic division membership Oth er entries were received f rom Tim Woelk Cochenour Ontario Canada Dan Linn Co lleyville TX (the young man whose leiter was the spark that initiated the contest - thanks Dan) and Jack Stephenshyson of Gilford N H who purchased his first airplane at age 19 To fill in some of the deshytails of Bob Cosman s young aviation cashyreer I asked AntiqueClassic Director Jeannie Hill to pay him a visit since she lives a short flight away in Harvard IL What she found was quite remarkable and it leaves me feeling a little bit better about the fu ture ofsport aviation and its potential for positively shaping young peoples lives See if you don t agree -HGF

Just as fisherman boast about the one that got away pilots are always talkin g about hidden treasures waiting to be di sshycovered in old barns and machine sheds around the country Somewhere out there is an undiscovere d aeronautical ge m somebodys drea m shot a project or a

story so unique that when it is discovered it makes the rest of the aviation commushynity rea lly stand up and take notice I d like to tell you about one of those finds

It a ll started a couple of weeks ago when HG Frautschy the Editor of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE asked me to fly over to Huntley Illinois to meet with a young ma n na med Bob Cosman who had e nshytered th e Youngest Antique or Classic Owner Contest sponsored by th e EAA AntiqueClassic Division In his lette r to HG Bob stated that his a irplane was a Cessna 120 and th at he has owned it for two years His age (15) qualified him as th e winne r so photos and a n inte rvi ew were the next order of business Because I live only about thirty miles from Huntley I could carry out the assignment

Aft er a brief conversation we set up a time a nd a place to mee t With camera and tripod (PA-22 that is) in hand I set out to find the field where the 120 is based

Thanks to exce llent directions in no tim e a t all I was se tting down on a 2300 foot green velvet billiard table approprishyately named Magic Carpet Field If th e airstrip and th e surrounding farm site we r e n t invitin g e nough ce rtainly the sight of a shiny 120 pa rk ed up against a bright red machine shed was The whole setting was pict uresque to say the least

Winner of the Youngest Antique or Classic Owner Contest sponsored by EAAs AntiqueClassic Division 15 year old Bob Cosman plans on becoming an aeronaushytical engineer As his Mom says Bobs always been goal oriented

But the best was yet to come As I taxied closer to one of the sharpest

and cleanest 120s Id ever seen its owner beca me more visib le His jacke t had CESSNA tast e fully e mbroidered alo ng the sleeve As soon as I got close enough to see that shy smile and that twinkle in his eye I knew I had found gold

After brief introductions I began askshying the pertine nt ques tions My queries were nothing o ut of ordinary The anshyswers on the other hand were quite the opposite

The young man humble as a rock ex plained that he first started flying when he was just a little boy with the owner of the strip the late Howard Reshydeker Mr Redeker built owned and

(continued on page 22)

2 JULY 1992

compiled by HG Frautschy

AlC ELECTION BALLOTS

A typographical error on the ballot for the election of officers and directors of the AntiqueClassic division has caused a bit of confusion for a few of our members Next to the heading for DIRECTORS at the bottom of page 24A the note Vote for Eight appears when in actuality there are nine directors up for reelection None of the Directors or officers are running against anyone else and the correct total of votes is reflected in the voting instrucshytions Please be sure to vote for nine (9) directors when voting and send in your ballots

OSHKOSH 92 NOTES

Here are a few notes of interest conshycerning AntiqueClassic activities during EAA OSHKOSH 92

CONTEMPORARY AIRCRAFT - Parkshying for showplane quality Contemporary Class airplanes will be available in the AnshytiqueClassic area for the first tim e this year Judging standards will be set up this year by the committee headed by AC Adshyvisor Dean Richardson If you have exshypertise in this class of aircraft built beshytween January 1 1956 and December 31 1960 the Judging committee would like to hear from you Contact Dean prior to the convention at 608-833-1291 or inquire at the AC Headquarters (the Red Barn) Please use the prop cards that will be given to you when you register - It makes conshytacting you easier and allows your editor the chance to reach you should your airshycraft be a candidate for an art icle in VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE I will be actively looking for stories on Contemporary Airshycraft during EAA OSHKOSH 92 so polshyish up your airplanes ANTIQUE PARKING - Continuing the parking arrangements for antiques started last year the first half of the area south of the Theater in the Woods will be reserved for Antique aircraft parking No camping will be allowed in this area and additional security will be provided in the evening ANTIQUECLASSIC FLY-OUT - If you think its fun in Oshkosh wait until you try Shawano WI Check with the volunteers at the AC Membership and Information Booth for the date time and time of the pilots briefing for the annual fly-out to this picturesque airport on the shores of Shawano Lake

ANTIQUE CLASSIC CHAPTER LUNCH - As a way of saying thank you to A C Chapter officers and members there will be an AntiqueClassic Chapter lunch during EAA OSHKOSH 92 For additional information regarding the date time and cost please stop by the AnshytiqueC lassic Membership and Informashytion Booth ANTIQUECLASSIC MEMBERSHIP AND INFORMATION BOOTH - Once again Dave Bennett and his hardy gang of volunteers will be manning the booth to renew current members enroll new memshybers and handing out copies of AEROshyGRAMS the AntiqueClassic Division s chronicle of daily activities They will also be taking reservations for the AnshytiqueClassic Chapter picnic as well as providing AntiqueClassic Chapter starter kits The booth will be open from 800 am until the airshow starts in the afternoon beginning on Thursday July 30 AEROGRAMS - Every day during the Convention Phyllis Brauer and her volunshyteer assistants will be publishing AEROshyGRAMS the Convention newsletter of the A ntiqueClassic division Copies are free and may be obtained at the AC Red Barn sales area Type Club Tent Airline Pilots Tent OX-5 Tent Showplane Campshying registration or the AC Membership and Information Booth Pick up a copy each day to help you plan your Convenshytion activities The AEROGRAM Staff will also mail the full weeks edition for a $300 donation to the AntiqueClassic division Contact Bob Brauer at the Information Booth or write either Phyllis or Bob Brauer at 9345 S Hoyne Av Chicago IL 60620 ANTIQUECLASSIC PICNIC - On Sunshyday August 2 1992 the AntiqueClassic annual picnic will be held at the EAA Nashyture Center A roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served Pioneer Airshyport will be available for tours and the new runway should have a fine layer of grass on it by the time Convention rolls around

Don t spend your time fighting the trafshyfic in town come on over to the AC picnic for a good time and good food Tickets will be available from Jeannie Hill or any of th e other hard working vo lunteers at the AC Red Barn

Also don t forget to have your EAA OSHKOSH flight line pass made into a convenient-to-wear button Priced at on ly $1 they re a handy way to keep your pass

in view without the hassle of a piece of string wrapped around your shirt button Get yours at the AC Red Barn

There are always a number of pleasant things to do at EAA OSHKOSH and the AntiqueClassic area is always a hotbed of activity Come on out relax on the Red Barns porch and enjoy yourself

EAA PLANS ADDITIONAL AUTOGAS TESTS

EAA is initiating materials compatibilshyity testing to determine the suitability of current fuel system materials for use with oxygenated auto gasoline Primary intershyest is in the use of MTBE in autogas The EAA test program will include other ethers such as ETBE and TAME which appear to be candidates for future oxyshygenates Testing will also include gasohol (10 ethanol) although using gasohol preshysents operationa l and materials problems that need to be addressed

The EPA now requires the use of oxyshygenates in auto gasol ine in areas which are not in compliance with clean air regulashytions Auto gasoline containing MTBE (now considered an oxygenate ) is being more widely used since its introduction in the mid 70s as an octane enhancing blendshying agent Gasoline with MTBE favors aircraft use having good anti-knock charshyacteristics and lower volat ility

100LL avia tion gaso line will also be tested with MTBE because of its potential for replacing lead to achieve a level of 100 octane when 100LL must be eliminated in the market place

EAA is also working with AOPA and Petersen Aviation Minden NE to conshyvince the FAA that the use of MTBE be immediately approved given the long hisshytory of successful use as a blending agent predating EAAs autogas flight testing in the early 1980s

FAA PLANS TO RESCIND MODE S TRANSPONDER REQUIREMENT

On May 29 FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind the Mode S transponder requirement for aircraft operating under FAR Part 91 Afshyter months of debate the FAA detershymined that it was necessary to have a pubshylic comment period rather than establishing a final rule to dismiss the reshyquirement that transponders newly inshystalled after July 1 1992 be the advanced

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

gtshyr -e lt) ~ -

Boy you sure can get a lot in those Cessna 140s Ann How- ~ ell s 140A probably had a bit of help bringing all of this

The location for the AntiqueClassic Fly-out during EAA campsite equipment from Downers Grove IL to the EAA FlyshyOSHKOSH Shawano Mun icipal Airport on the shores of In She was probably doing fine until it came time to find a Shawano lake Wisconsin It features a 1775 ft grass strip and spot in the baggage compartment for the flagpoles and the a 2600 ft paved runway as well as a seaplane ramp wagon

Mode S version de leting the insta ll at ion requ ireme n t of non-type certificated engines and proshyWhen the Mode S rule was originally Mode S transponders in general aviation pellers FAA is preparing information

contemplated in 1982 it was with the anshy aircraft operated under FAR 91 has been which will result in an Advisory Circular to ticipation that FAAs Mode S ground senshy issued by the FAA We will have an addishy guide potential manufacturers through the sors would be in place by 1991 A deadline tional update on this issue in the next edishy type certification process FAA has set a date for newly installed transponders tion of VINTAGE A IRPLANE goal to complete this effort which would which would provide for interference-free permit application for these airplanepowshyradar transmission and reception was esshy FAA READY FOR SIMPLIFIED erplant combinations by August 1 tablished for mid-1992 CERTIFICAnON APPLICA nONS bull Two-place fixed-gear airplanes with

By late last year two events dictated type certificated e ngines and propellers the need for FAA to postpone or rescind Setting the stage for an increase in parts and gross weights of 3000 pounds or less the requirement for Mode S transponder that are used in the construction of certishy can use simplified methods of complying installation First FAA recognized that it fied airplanes the FAA has begun to acshy with existing FAR Part 23 A number of was not reasonable to expect that the cept applications for aircraft certification kit manufacturers have cooperated in the ground-based sensors would be fully opershy using the simp lified type certification development of a simplified methods docshyational until at least 1996 process that has been developed by EAA ument which wi ll be available as an FAA

Second the recommendations of the FAA and the Sport Aircraft Manufacturshy Advisory Circular by early August Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Commitshy ers Association Those interested in submitt ing applicashytee (ARAC) were sent to the FAA for Were open for business said FAAs tion under the Small A ircraft Certification consideration EAA has served on and director of aircraft certification Craig Compliance P rogram shou ld contact supported the recommendations of the Beard to aviation certification officia ls D o nald Michal manager of t he FAA committee Based on the technical probshy from around the world at the recent Ninth Chicago A ircraft Certifcation Office 2300 lems that Mode S system presently exshy Annual FAA - Joint Aviation Authorities E Devon Avenue Room 232 Des Plaines hibits and the recomendations of the Meeting in Toronto Officia ls have IL 60018 or call (312) 694-7357 ARAC that additional studies should be worked diligen tly with ind ustry represenshydone the FAA has decided that the Mode tatives for one and a half years to develop FAA MICROFICHE RECORDS S requirement should be rescinded It this program including the identification should be pointed out that this does not of simplified methods of complying with As mentioned in the article on the Civil mean the requirement could not be reinshy existing FAR Part 23 Part 23 sets forth A ir Patrol starting on page 9 you can obshystated at some time in the future Howshy the certification process for a standard airshy tain microfiche copies of the records on ever once the rule is deleted before the worthiness certificate FAA has now finalshy your airplane direct ly from the FAA To FAA could resurrect the requirement for a ized material necessary for applicants for recieve your copy send $200 for the Mode S transponder another NP R M airplanes with type certifica ted engines search fee and 35cent for each microfiche to would have to be issued and propellers and is accepting applicashy

While the FAAs NPRM requests comshy tions Microfiche Records ments to the Docket the installation date There are three avenues availab le for FAA Aircraft Registry requirement of July 1 has necessitated a app licants desi ring to fi ll the need for airshy PO Box 25082 minimum 30-day comment period Not planes to be used for trai ning and recreshy Oklahoma City OK 73125 surprisingly the responses to the FAA s ational purposes Docket are overwhelmingly favorab le to bull Two-place airplanes with type certifishy $400 is normally enough to cover the the rescission of the Mode S requirement cated engines and propellers gross weights cost for most aircraft Be sure and include considering the $3500 price tag of the of 1654 pounds or less and 45 kn ot or less your N-number and aircraft serial number transponder If any members are planning stall speed can utilize J ARIVLA requireshy with your request on installing a transponder during the ments to achieve certification under FAR month of July call EAA Information Sershy Part 23 (Continued on page 22) vices 4141426-4800 to ensure the rule bull For JARIVLA airplanes powered by 4 JULY 1992

compiled by HG Frautschy

AlC ELECTION BALLOTS

A typographical error on the ballot for the election of officers and directors of the AntiqueClassic division has caused a bit of confusion for a few of our members Next to the heading for DIRECTORS at the bottom of page 24A the note Vote for Eight appears when in actuality there are nine directors up for reelection None of the Directors or officers are running against anyone else and the correct total of votes is reflected in the voting instrucshytions Please be sure to vote for nine (9) directors when voting and send in your ballots

OSHKOSH 92 NOTES

Here are a few notes of interest conshycerning AntiqueClassic activities during EAA OSHKOSH 92

CONTEMPORARY AIRCRAFT - Parkshying for showplane quality Contemporary Class airplanes will be available in the AnshytiqueClassic area for the first tim e this year Judging standards will be set up this year by the committee headed by AC Adshyvisor Dean Richardson If you have exshypertise in this class of aircraft built beshytween January 1 1956 and December 31 1960 the Judging committee would like to hear from you Contact Dean prior to the convention at 608-833-1291 or inquire at the AC Headquarters (the Red Barn) Please use the prop cards that will be given to you when you register - It makes conshytacting you easier and allows your editor the chance to reach you should your airshycraft be a candidate for an art icle in VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE I will be actively looking for stories on Contemporary Airshycraft during EAA OSHKOSH 92 so polshyish up your airplanes ANTIQUE PARKING - Continuing the parking arrangements for antiques started last year the first half of the area south of the Theater in the Woods will be reserved for Antique aircraft parking No camping will be allowed in this area and additional security will be provided in the evening ANTIQUECLASSIC FLY-OUT - If you think its fun in Oshkosh wait until you try Shawano WI Check with the volunteers at the AC Membership and Information Booth for the date time and time of the pilots briefing for the annual fly-out to this picturesque airport on the shores of Shawano Lake

ANTIQUE CLASSIC CHAPTER LUNCH - As a way of saying thank you to A C Chapter officers and members there will be an AntiqueClassic Chapter lunch during EAA OSHKOSH 92 For additional information regarding the date time and cost please stop by the AnshytiqueC lassic Membership and Informashytion Booth ANTIQUECLASSIC MEMBERSHIP AND INFORMATION BOOTH - Once again Dave Bennett and his hardy gang of volunteers will be manning the booth to renew current members enroll new memshybers and handing out copies of AEROshyGRAMS the AntiqueClassic Division s chronicle of daily activities They will also be taking reservations for the AnshytiqueClassic Chapter picnic as well as providing AntiqueClassic Chapter starter kits The booth will be open from 800 am until the airshow starts in the afternoon beginning on Thursday July 30 AEROGRAMS - Every day during the Convention Phyllis Brauer and her volunshyteer assistants will be publishing AEROshyGRAMS the Convention newsletter of the A ntiqueClassic division Copies are free and may be obtained at the AC Red Barn sales area Type Club Tent Airline Pilots Tent OX-5 Tent Showplane Campshying registration or the AC Membership and Information Booth Pick up a copy each day to help you plan your Convenshytion activities The AEROGRAM Staff will also mail the full weeks edition for a $300 donation to the AntiqueClassic division Contact Bob Brauer at the Information Booth or write either Phyllis or Bob Brauer at 9345 S Hoyne Av Chicago IL 60620 ANTIQUECLASSIC PICNIC - On Sunshyday August 2 1992 the AntiqueClassic annual picnic will be held at the EAA Nashyture Center A roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served Pioneer Airshyport will be available for tours and the new runway should have a fine layer of grass on it by the time Convention rolls around

Don t spend your time fighting the trafshyfic in town come on over to the AC picnic for a good time and good food Tickets will be available from Jeannie Hill or any of th e other hard working vo lunteers at the AC Red Barn

Also don t forget to have your EAA OSHKOSH flight line pass made into a convenient-to-wear button Priced at on ly $1 they re a handy way to keep your pass

in view without the hassle of a piece of string wrapped around your shirt button Get yours at the AC Red Barn

There are always a number of pleasant things to do at EAA OSHKOSH and the AntiqueClassic area is always a hotbed of activity Come on out relax on the Red Barns porch and enjoy yourself

EAA PLANS ADDITIONAL AUTOGAS TESTS

EAA is initiating materials compatibilshyity testing to determine the suitability of current fuel system materials for use with oxygenated auto gasoline Primary intershyest is in the use of MTBE in autogas The EAA test program will include other ethers such as ETBE and TAME which appear to be candidates for future oxyshygenates Testing will also include gasohol (10 ethanol) although using gasohol preshysents operationa l and materials problems that need to be addressed

The EPA now requires the use of oxyshygenates in auto gasol ine in areas which are not in compliance with clean air regulashytions Auto gasoline containing MTBE (now considered an oxygenate ) is being more widely used since its introduction in the mid 70s as an octane enhancing blendshying agent Gasoline with MTBE favors aircraft use having good anti-knock charshyacteristics and lower volat ility

100LL avia tion gaso line will also be tested with MTBE because of its potential for replacing lead to achieve a level of 100 octane when 100LL must be eliminated in the market place

EAA is also working with AOPA and Petersen Aviation Minden NE to conshyvince the FAA that the use of MTBE be immediately approved given the long hisshytory of successful use as a blending agent predating EAAs autogas flight testing in the early 1980s

FAA PLANS TO RESCIND MODE S TRANSPONDER REQUIREMENT

On May 29 FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind the Mode S transponder requirement for aircraft operating under FAR Part 91 Afshyter months of debate the FAA detershymined that it was necessary to have a pubshylic comment period rather than establishing a final rule to dismiss the reshyquirement that transponders newly inshystalled after July 1 1992 be the advanced

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

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Boy you sure can get a lot in those Cessna 140s Ann How- ~ ell s 140A probably had a bit of help bringing all of this

The location for the AntiqueClassic Fly-out during EAA campsite equipment from Downers Grove IL to the EAA FlyshyOSHKOSH Shawano Mun icipal Airport on the shores of In She was probably doing fine until it came time to find a Shawano lake Wisconsin It features a 1775 ft grass strip and spot in the baggage compartment for the flagpoles and the a 2600 ft paved runway as well as a seaplane ramp wagon

Mode S version de leting the insta ll at ion requ ireme n t of non-type certificated engines and proshyWhen the Mode S rule was originally Mode S transponders in general aviation pellers FAA is preparing information

contemplated in 1982 it was with the anshy aircraft operated under FAR 91 has been which will result in an Advisory Circular to ticipation that FAAs Mode S ground senshy issued by the FAA We will have an addishy guide potential manufacturers through the sors would be in place by 1991 A deadline tional update on this issue in the next edishy type certification process FAA has set a date for newly installed transponders tion of VINTAGE A IRPLANE goal to complete this effort which would which would provide for interference-free permit application for these airplanepowshyradar transmission and reception was esshy FAA READY FOR SIMPLIFIED erplant combinations by August 1 tablished for mid-1992 CERTIFICAnON APPLICA nONS bull Two-place fixed-gear airplanes with

By late last year two events dictated type certificated e ngines and propellers the need for FAA to postpone or rescind Setting the stage for an increase in parts and gross weights of 3000 pounds or less the requirement for Mode S transponder that are used in the construction of certishy can use simplified methods of complying installation First FAA recognized that it fied airplanes the FAA has begun to acshy with existing FAR Part 23 A number of was not reasonable to expect that the cept applications for aircraft certification kit manufacturers have cooperated in the ground-based sensors would be fully opershy using the simp lified type certification development of a simplified methods docshyational until at least 1996 process that has been developed by EAA ument which wi ll be available as an FAA

Second the recommendations of the FAA and the Sport Aircraft Manufacturshy Advisory Circular by early August Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Commitshy ers Association Those interested in submitt ing applicashytee (ARAC) were sent to the FAA for Were open for business said FAAs tion under the Small A ircraft Certification consideration EAA has served on and director of aircraft certification Craig Compliance P rogram shou ld contact supported the recommendations of the Beard to aviation certification officia ls D o nald Michal manager of t he FAA committee Based on the technical probshy from around the world at the recent Ninth Chicago A ircraft Certifcation Office 2300 lems that Mode S system presently exshy Annual FAA - Joint Aviation Authorities E Devon Avenue Room 232 Des Plaines hibits and the recomendations of the Meeting in Toronto Officia ls have IL 60018 or call (312) 694-7357 ARAC that additional studies should be worked diligen tly with ind ustry represenshydone the FAA has decided that the Mode tatives for one and a half years to develop FAA MICROFICHE RECORDS S requirement should be rescinded It this program including the identification should be pointed out that this does not of simplified methods of complying with As mentioned in the article on the Civil mean the requirement could not be reinshy existing FAR Part 23 Part 23 sets forth A ir Patrol starting on page 9 you can obshystated at some time in the future Howshy the certification process for a standard airshy tain microfiche copies of the records on ever once the rule is deleted before the worthiness certificate FAA has now finalshy your airplane direct ly from the FAA To FAA could resurrect the requirement for a ized material necessary for applicants for recieve your copy send $200 for the Mode S transponder another NP R M airplanes with type certifica ted engines search fee and 35cent for each microfiche to would have to be issued and propellers and is accepting applicashy

While the FAAs NPRM requests comshy tions Microfiche Records ments to the Docket the installation date There are three avenues availab le for FAA Aircraft Registry requirement of July 1 has necessitated a app licants desi ring to fi ll the need for airshy PO Box 25082 minimum 30-day comment period Not planes to be used for trai ning and recreshy Oklahoma City OK 73125 surprisingly the responses to the FAA s ational purposes Docket are overwhelmingly favorab le to bull Two-place airplanes with type certifishy $400 is normally enough to cover the the rescission of the Mode S requirement cated engines and propellers gross weights cost for most aircraft Be sure and include considering the $3500 price tag of the of 1654 pounds or less and 45 kn ot or less your N-number and aircraft serial number transponder If any members are planning stall speed can utilize J ARIVLA requireshy with your request on installing a transponder during the ments to achieve certification under FAR month of July call EAA Information Sershy Part 23 (Continued on page 22) vices 4141426-4800 to ensure the rule bull For JARIVLA airplanes powered by 4 JULY 1992

gtshyr -e lt) ~ -

Boy you sure can get a lot in those Cessna 140s Ann How- ~ ell s 140A probably had a bit of help bringing all of this

The location for the AntiqueClassic Fly-out during EAA campsite equipment from Downers Grove IL to the EAA FlyshyOSHKOSH Shawano Mun icipal Airport on the shores of In She was probably doing fine until it came time to find a Shawano lake Wisconsin It features a 1775 ft grass strip and spot in the baggage compartment for the flagpoles and the a 2600 ft paved runway as well as a seaplane ramp wagon

Mode S version de leting the insta ll at ion requ ireme n t of non-type certificated engines and proshyWhen the Mode S rule was originally Mode S transponders in general aviation pellers FAA is preparing information

contemplated in 1982 it was with the anshy aircraft operated under FAR 91 has been which will result in an Advisory Circular to ticipation that FAAs Mode S ground senshy issued by the FAA We will have an addishy guide potential manufacturers through the sors would be in place by 1991 A deadline tional update on this issue in the next edishy type certification process FAA has set a date for newly installed transponders tion of VINTAGE A IRPLANE goal to complete this effort which would which would provide for interference-free permit application for these airplanepowshyradar transmission and reception was esshy FAA READY FOR SIMPLIFIED erplant combinations by August 1 tablished for mid-1992 CERTIFICAnON APPLICA nONS bull Two-place fixed-gear airplanes with

By late last year two events dictated type certificated e ngines and propellers the need for FAA to postpone or rescind Setting the stage for an increase in parts and gross weights of 3000 pounds or less the requirement for Mode S transponder that are used in the construction of certishy can use simplified methods of complying installation First FAA recognized that it fied airplanes the FAA has begun to acshy with existing FAR Part 23 A number of was not reasonable to expect that the cept applications for aircraft certification kit manufacturers have cooperated in the ground-based sensors would be fully opershy using the simp lified type certification development of a simplified methods docshyational until at least 1996 process that has been developed by EAA ument which wi ll be available as an FAA

Second the recommendations of the FAA and the Sport Aircraft Manufacturshy Advisory Circular by early August Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Commitshy ers Association Those interested in submitt ing applicashytee (ARAC) were sent to the FAA for Were open for business said FAAs tion under the Small A ircraft Certification consideration EAA has served on and director of aircraft certification Craig Compliance P rogram shou ld contact supported the recommendations of the Beard to aviation certification officia ls D o nald Michal manager of t he FAA committee Based on the technical probshy from around the world at the recent Ninth Chicago A ircraft Certifcation Office 2300 lems that Mode S system presently exshy Annual FAA - Joint Aviation Authorities E Devon Avenue Room 232 Des Plaines hibits and the recomendations of the Meeting in Toronto Officia ls have IL 60018 or call (312) 694-7357 ARAC that additional studies should be worked diligen tly with ind ustry represenshydone the FAA has decided that the Mode tatives for one and a half years to develop FAA MICROFICHE RECORDS S requirement should be rescinded It this program including the identification should be pointed out that this does not of simplified methods of complying with As mentioned in the article on the Civil mean the requirement could not be reinshy existing FAR Part 23 Part 23 sets forth A ir Patrol starting on page 9 you can obshystated at some time in the future Howshy the certification process for a standard airshy tain microfiche copies of the records on ever once the rule is deleted before the worthiness certificate FAA has now finalshy your airplane direct ly from the FAA To FAA could resurrect the requirement for a ized material necessary for applicants for recieve your copy send $200 for the Mode S transponder another NP R M airplanes with type certifica ted engines search fee and 35cent for each microfiche to would have to be issued and propellers and is accepting applicashy

While the FAAs NPRM requests comshy tions Microfiche Records ments to the Docket the installation date There are three avenues availab le for FAA Aircraft Registry requirement of July 1 has necessitated a app licants desi ring to fi ll the need for airshy PO Box 25082 minimum 30-day comment period Not planes to be used for trai ning and recreshy Oklahoma City OK 73125 surprisingly the responses to the FAA s ational purposes Docket are overwhelmingly favorab le to bull Two-place airplanes with type certifishy $400 is normally enough to cover the the rescission of the Mode S requirement cated engines and propellers gross weights cost for most aircraft Be sure and include considering the $3500 price tag of the of 1654 pounds or less and 45 kn ot or less your N-number and aircraft serial number transponder If any members are planning stall speed can utilize J ARIVLA requireshy with your request on installing a transponder during the ments to achieve certification under FAR month of July call EAA Information Sershy Part 23 (Continued on page 22) vices 4141426-4800 to ensure the rule bull For JARIVLA airplanes powered by 4 JULY 1992

VI~TA(3~ LIT~12ATU12~ by [)ennis J)ar-ks~

Libr-ar-yjAr-chives [)ir-ectur-

Daniel Guggenheim International Safe Airplane Competition

Part 5 Burnelli Entry

Of the 15 aircraft that showed up for the Safe Airplane Competition trishyals at Mitchell Field on Long Island the most unusual in concept was the Burnelli Monop lane entry X-124H The 1930 edition of LICENSED A IRshyCRAFT listed the aircraft as the Upshypercu Burnelli UB SS and registered to the Uppercu Burnell i Aircraft Corshyporation of Keyport New Jersey It was registered in 1929 and carried the

serial number 10 The aircraft was a Cirrus powered

twin-engined monoplane Among its features were a four wheel landing gear twin tai l wing tip floating ailerons and its most technically adshyvanced feature a variable camber wing The aircraft was described in the December 14 1929 issue of AVIshyATION

A combination of variable area and camber is employed among the many interesting features of the Burshynelli airp lane b u ilt by the UppercushyBurnell i Corporation in the p lant of

the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation at Keyport This airplane embodies a number of the features incorporated in former Burnelli machines

The most noteworthy of these feashytures is the idea of a central airfoil body or fuselage intended to conshytribute lift by virtue of its airfoil shaped profile As in the case of forshymer Burnelli planes this machine which is purely experimental is powshyered with two Cirrus engines mounted as closely as propeller clearance pershymits in the leading edge of the strucshyture which constitutes the fuselage

With its multiple-wheeled landing gear and end plates on the wingtips as well as other unusual features the Burelli UB SS would have been an interesting contestant in the trials for the Guggenheim Safe Airplane Contest

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

This sketch shows the variable camber and wing area mechanism within the wing of the Burnelli

The wingtip installation showing the aileron configuration and tip plates

The four wheel landing gear and wheel fairings Note the spoon at the rear of the fairing

JULY 1992

The lifting body fuselage and variable camber wing of the Burnelli were interesting innovations in 1929

These engines are mounted in such a way that their longitudinal center lines are inclined outwardly at a small angle to the line of flight in the horishyzontal plane This has been done in an effort to provide adequate ruder control when one engine is used alone and is a feature incorporated in former Burnelli creations

The variable area and camber deshyvice is a development worked out by Mr Burnelli in collaboration with Mr E Burke Wilford several years ago The wing section is of medium thickshyness and the portion between the spars is rigidly mounted and braced The design is such that the nose and

trailing edge portions move outward and downward changing the curvashyture as well as the area This is acshycomplished by a rack and pinion mechanism with pInIOn gears mounted every five feet on two torque shafts running parallel to the spars

The shaft running parallel to the forward spar is controlled by a hand wheel in the cockpit while that runshyning parallel to the rear spar is driven by a chain from the forward one The pinion gears actuate curved rack members the ends of which are atshytached to the movable nose and trailshying edge These rack me mbers are mounted on rollers in guides and their

curvature provides the necessary change in camber With the object of maintaining a minimum of center of pressure travel the mechanism has been designed to impart greater moshytion to the nose section than to that of the trailing edge Strap guides are placed at appropriate intervals to preshyvent the necessarily flexible portion of the skin from crinkling

As previously mentioned the airshyplane is constructed of metal throughshyout aluminum alloy being used for the greater portion of the wing strucshyture the magnesium allow being emshyployed in the construction of the racks and guides Another noteworthy feashyture of the B u rnelli airplane is the landing gear which is of the four wheel type and is designed to elimishynate the tail skid this being necessary because of the high position of the tail which is supported on outriggers from the airfoil shaped fuselage

The rear wheels which are 22x10 in are larger than the front ones and are mounted approximately below the center of gravity with no provishysion other than the Musselman tires to obtain deflection in landing The forward wheels are considerably smaller being 12x5 in and are inshytended to prevent nosing over They are mounted a few feet ahead of the rear wheels and the pairs on each side are housed in streamline fairings At the rear of each of these fairings is a small spoon which acts to some deshygree like a tail skid and prevents the tail from coming in contact with the ground under certain landing condishytions

When the Burnelli plane was first submitted the ailerons were mounted at the wing tips and controlled by cashybles from the cockpit Later this feashyture was modified and ailerons of considerably less chord and higher asshypect ratio were mounted below the wings near the tips

The Burnelli plane has side by side seating arrangement and is of the open type The span of the machine with tip ailerons was 49 ft and the length overall 26 ft while the wing area was 216 sq ft The fuselage is 8 ft wide and 15 ft long while the overshyall height of the plane is 9 ft 4 in The weight empty is 1640 Ibs and the gross weight is 2590 Ibs

Immediately after its presentation at Mitchell Field the Burnelli monoshyplane was returned to Keyport New Jersey for modifications A deadline of November 30 was set by the comshypetition committee for its return but the aircraft did not appear and thus it was eliminated from the Safe Aircraft Competition It would have been inshyteresting to have known its abilities bull

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

WHEN THE ANTIQUES WENT TO WAR

Crewmen of Base 17 Suffolk -Long Island NY with survival gear and rubber flotation Zoot suits

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the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Air Patrol

Sc ra tch th e s urface and yo u ll find so me thin g inte restin g Dig dee per and yo u ll find so me thin g fascin a ting If yo u re a hi s to ry hound a s m os t AnshytiqueClassic members are then you know thi s old saw about delving into aviati ons past

Co nside r th e n the pre war cabin a nshytiques on a fly- in display row Their unobshytrusive ways are a staple of fl y- ins since before we ve eve n had an antique moveshyment Compare the cabin planes easygoshying stance now though to a time 50 years ago wh e n th ey went to war in th e tru est se nse flyin g arm ed a ttack-and -destroy f li ght s aga in st a hostile invade r o f th e United States which had placed maraudshying uniformed military troops within 100 mil es o f th e nation s capital a nd within eyesight of New York City

Huh What

Tucked away in the ra tions memory is the time ea rly in WW II when Nazi Gershymany sailed an invading fleet to U S washyte rs roamin g nea rly at fr ee will Th e fl eet of course was entirely subm arines and they appeared only six weeks aft er

8 JULY 1992

by Roger Thiel (Ale 1817)

Pearl Harbor a nd to rp e do ed ships both military and regrettably civilian

The strategic implicati o ns we re harsh Sinkings rose from 12 in January 1942 to 52 in May threatening our ability to wage war in Europe and to sustain England and its strategic posture as a foothold to eve nshytually liberate the Continent

Worse yet the U S Navys priority in th e Pacific left th e Atl anti c severe ly unshyde rguarded as factori es frantically tooled up to muster what was to beco me th e

sleeping giant s terrible resolve A s e a rly as 1939 Ne w J e rsey St a te

Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson and other aviators of the day had sensed what might ha ppe n a nd pre pare d a plan by which civilian airpl anes and pilots might relieve th e regul a r milita ry of patrolling the coast in the event of war As the storm clouds of war darke ned they pressed the case which res ulted in th e formation o f the Civil Air Patrol on December 1 1941 By th ese s ix days th e re fore th e C A P b egan be fo re Pea rl H a rb o r a nd th e n moved quickl y to organi ze over the win shyter

C A P Base Two at Rehoboth Beach Delaware bega n ope rations on February 26 1942 flyin g Fairchilds and Stinsons on makeshift patrol eve n be fore supplies arshyrived Within a mo nth a full squadro n type operation was working - with about 20 airplanes mostly utilizing the Fairchild 24 a nd Stinso n Voyager Othe r Bases used ca bin Wacos the large Stinso n fl a t wings and Reli ants Ryan SCWs and othshyers The patrol of course required cabin pl anes ra ther than ope n cockpit capable of carrying two pilots and later bombs or depth charges

Flying single engine and up to 50 miles out engine maintenance was an absolute priority One unit had a standing rule that the mechanic would fly right seat on the first over water flight fo llowing engine work

Rehoboth Base CO Holger Hoiriis summoned a well-known area mechanic Everett Smitty Smith whose genius kept the Squadron on patrol Early preshycautionary engine overhauls were undershytaken to supplement continuing inspecshytion and repair By late spring Base Two had a full squadron of uniformed pilots mechanics and radio operators

We fly by the grace of God and Smitty the squadron pilots would say Among his make do inventions for Fairchilds were a quick release door sysshytem in case of at sea ditching and the placement of several empty five gallon tins soldered shut in the tail cones This flotation system worked in the event of a ditch by keeping the tail feathers above water saving the plane giving the pilots something to hang onto and made the emshypennage become a search marker that was visible for miles Maintenance was mostly accomplished outdoors and pilots not flyshying were often pressed to help at least as tool passers

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

Major Tom Daniels eo of Base 6 St Simons Island Georgia in Ryan sew with he spotted an enemy submarine cruising bomb racks below with their de pth charges setting

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

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A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

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lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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This sketch shows the variable camber and wing area mechanism within the wing of the Burnelli

The wingtip installation showing the aileron configuration and tip plates

The four wheel landing gear and wheel fairings Note the spoon at the rear of the fairing

JULY 1992

The lifting body fuselage and variable camber wing of the Burnelli were interesting innovations in 1929

These engines are mounted in such a way that their longitudinal center lines are inclined outwardly at a small angle to the line of flight in the horishyzontal plane This has been done in an effort to provide adequate ruder control when one engine is used alone and is a feature incorporated in former Burnelli creations

The variable area and camber deshyvice is a development worked out by Mr Burnelli in collaboration with Mr E Burke Wilford several years ago The wing section is of medium thickshyness and the portion between the spars is rigidly mounted and braced The design is such that the nose and

trailing edge portions move outward and downward changing the curvashyture as well as the area This is acshycomplished by a rack and pinion mechanism with pInIOn gears mounted every five feet on two torque shafts running parallel to the spars

The shaft running parallel to the forward spar is controlled by a hand wheel in the cockpit while that runshyning parallel to the rear spar is driven by a chain from the forward one The pinion gears actuate curved rack members the ends of which are atshytached to the movable nose and trailshying edge These rack me mbers are mounted on rollers in guides and their

curvature provides the necessary change in camber With the object of maintaining a minimum of center of pressure travel the mechanism has been designed to impart greater moshytion to the nose section than to that of the trailing edge Strap guides are placed at appropriate intervals to preshyvent the necessarily flexible portion of the skin from crinkling

As previously mentioned the airshyplane is constructed of metal throughshyout aluminum alloy being used for the greater portion of the wing strucshyture the magnesium allow being emshyployed in the construction of the racks and guides Another noteworthy feashyture of the B u rnelli airplane is the landing gear which is of the four wheel type and is designed to elimishynate the tail skid this being necessary because of the high position of the tail which is supported on outriggers from the airfoil shaped fuselage

The rear wheels which are 22x10 in are larger than the front ones and are mounted approximately below the center of gravity with no provishysion other than the Musselman tires to obtain deflection in landing The forward wheels are considerably smaller being 12x5 in and are inshytended to prevent nosing over They are mounted a few feet ahead of the rear wheels and the pairs on each side are housed in streamline fairings At the rear of each of these fairings is a small spoon which acts to some deshygree like a tail skid and prevents the tail from coming in contact with the ground under certain landing condishytions

When the Burnelli plane was first submitted the ailerons were mounted at the wing tips and controlled by cashybles from the cockpit Later this feashyture was modified and ailerons of considerably less chord and higher asshypect ratio were mounted below the wings near the tips

The Burnelli plane has side by side seating arrangement and is of the open type The span of the machine with tip ailerons was 49 ft and the length overall 26 ft while the wing area was 216 sq ft The fuselage is 8 ft wide and 15 ft long while the overshyall height of the plane is 9 ft 4 in The weight empty is 1640 Ibs and the gross weight is 2590 Ibs

Immediately after its presentation at Mitchell Field the Burnelli monoshyplane was returned to Keyport New Jersey for modifications A deadline of November 30 was set by the comshypetition committee for its return but the aircraft did not appear and thus it was eliminated from the Safe Aircraft Competition It would have been inshyteresting to have known its abilities bull

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Sc ra tch th e s urface and yo u ll find so me thin g inte restin g Dig dee per and yo u ll find so me thin g fascin a ting If yo u re a hi s to ry hound a s m os t AnshytiqueClassic members are then you know thi s old saw about delving into aviati ons past

Co nside r th e n the pre war cabin a nshytiques on a fly- in display row Their unobshytrusive ways are a staple of fl y- ins since before we ve eve n had an antique moveshyment Compare the cabin planes easygoshying stance now though to a time 50 years ago wh e n th ey went to war in th e tru est se nse flyin g arm ed a ttack-and -destroy f li ght s aga in st a hostile invade r o f th e United States which had placed maraudshying uniformed military troops within 100 mil es o f th e nation s capital a nd within eyesight of New York City

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Tucked away in the ra tions memory is the time ea rly in WW II when Nazi Gershymany sailed an invading fleet to U S washyte rs roamin g nea rly at fr ee will Th e fl eet of course was entirely subm arines and they appeared only six weeks aft er

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Pearl Harbor a nd to rp e do ed ships both military and regrettably civilian

The strategic implicati o ns we re harsh Sinkings rose from 12 in January 1942 to 52 in May threatening our ability to wage war in Europe and to sustain England and its strategic posture as a foothold to eve nshytually liberate the Continent

Worse yet the U S Navys priority in th e Pacific left th e Atl anti c severe ly unshyde rguarded as factori es frantically tooled up to muster what was to beco me th e

sleeping giant s terrible resolve A s e a rly as 1939 Ne w J e rsey St a te

Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson and other aviators of the day had sensed what might ha ppe n a nd pre pare d a plan by which civilian airpl anes and pilots might relieve th e regul a r milita ry of patrolling the coast in the event of war As the storm clouds of war darke ned they pressed the case which res ulted in th e formation o f the Civil Air Patrol on December 1 1941 By th ese s ix days th e re fore th e C A P b egan be fo re Pea rl H a rb o r a nd th e n moved quickl y to organi ze over the win shyter

C A P Base Two at Rehoboth Beach Delaware bega n ope rations on February 26 1942 flyin g Fairchilds and Stinsons on makeshift patrol eve n be fore supplies arshyrived Within a mo nth a full squadro n type operation was working - with about 20 airplanes mostly utilizing the Fairchild 24 a nd Stinso n Voyager Othe r Bases used ca bin Wacos the large Stinso n fl a t wings and Reli ants Ryan SCWs and othshyers The patrol of course required cabin pl anes ra ther than ope n cockpit capable of carrying two pilots and later bombs or depth charges

Flying single engine and up to 50 miles out engine maintenance was an absolute priority One unit had a standing rule that the mechanic would fly right seat on the first over water flight fo llowing engine work

Rehoboth Base CO Holger Hoiriis summoned a well-known area mechanic Everett Smitty Smith whose genius kept the Squadron on patrol Early preshycautionary engine overhauls were undershytaken to supplement continuing inspecshytion and repair By late spring Base Two had a full squadron of uniformed pilots mechanics and radio operators

We fly by the grace of God and Smitty the squadron pilots would say Among his make do inventions for Fairchilds were a quick release door sysshytem in case of at sea ditching and the placement of several empty five gallon tins soldered shut in the tail cones This flotation system worked in the event of a ditch by keeping the tail feathers above water saving the plane giving the pilots something to hang onto and made the emshypennage become a search marker that was visible for miles Maintenance was mostly accomplished outdoors and pilots not flyshying were often pressed to help at least as tool passers

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

Major Tom Daniels eo of Base 6 St Simons Island Georgia in Ryan sew with he spotted an enemy submarine cruising bomb racks below with their de pth charges setting

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Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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CIVIL AIR PATROL

WWII COASTAL PATROLANTI-SUBMARINE BASES

25th ANTISUBMARINE WING BASE

20 BAR HARBOR MAINE 19 PORTLAND MAINE 18 FA LM OUTH (Cape Codl MASSAC HUSETTS 17 SUFFOLK (Long Island) NEW YO RK

ATLA NTIC CITY NEW JERSEY REHOBOTH BEACH OELAWA RE

4 PARKSLEY V IRG INIA 16 MANTEO NORTH CARO LI NA 21 BEAUFORT NORTH CARO LI NA 8 CHARLESTON (St James Islel SOUTH CA ROLI NA 6 BRUNSWICK 1St Smon s Islandl GEORGIA

26th ANTISUBMARINE WING BA SE

FLAGLER BEACH FLO RIDA LANTANA FLOR IDA

7 MIAMI FLOR IDA 13 SARASOTA FLOR IDA 14 PANAMA CITY FLORIDA 11 PASCAGOU LA MISSISS IPP I 9 GRAND ISLE LOU ISI ANA 10 BEAU MONT TEXAS 15 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS 12 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Rehoboth Delaware Base 2 -- Sikorsky amphibian used for daring rescue which earned 2 CAP fliers the Air Medal

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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The lifting body fuselage and variable camber wing of the Burnelli were interesting innovations in 1929

These engines are mounted in such a way that their longitudinal center lines are inclined outwardly at a small angle to the line of flight in the horishyzontal plane This has been done in an effort to provide adequate ruder control when one engine is used alone and is a feature incorporated in former Burnelli creations

The variable area and camber deshyvice is a development worked out by Mr Burnelli in collaboration with Mr E Burke Wilford several years ago The wing section is of medium thickshyness and the portion between the spars is rigidly mounted and braced The design is such that the nose and

trailing edge portions move outward and downward changing the curvashyture as well as the area This is acshycomplished by a rack and pinion mechanism with pInIOn gears mounted every five feet on two torque shafts running parallel to the spars

The shaft running parallel to the forward spar is controlled by a hand wheel in the cockpit while that runshyning parallel to the rear spar is driven by a chain from the forward one The pinion gears actuate curved rack members the ends of which are atshytached to the movable nose and trailshying edge These rack me mbers are mounted on rollers in guides and their

curvature provides the necessary change in camber With the object of maintaining a minimum of center of pressure travel the mechanism has been designed to impart greater moshytion to the nose section than to that of the trailing edge Strap guides are placed at appropriate intervals to preshyvent the necessarily flexible portion of the skin from crinkling

As previously mentioned the airshyplane is constructed of metal throughshyout aluminum alloy being used for the greater portion of the wing strucshyture the magnesium allow being emshyployed in the construction of the racks and guides Another noteworthy feashyture of the B u rnelli airplane is the landing gear which is of the four wheel type and is designed to elimishynate the tail skid this being necessary because of the high position of the tail which is supported on outriggers from the airfoil shaped fuselage

The rear wheels which are 22x10 in are larger than the front ones and are mounted approximately below the center of gravity with no provishysion other than the Musselman tires to obtain deflection in landing The forward wheels are considerably smaller being 12x5 in and are inshytended to prevent nosing over They are mounted a few feet ahead of the rear wheels and the pairs on each side are housed in streamline fairings At the rear of each of these fairings is a small spoon which acts to some deshygree like a tail skid and prevents the tail from coming in contact with the ground under certain landing condishytions

When the Burnelli plane was first submitted the ailerons were mounted at the wing tips and controlled by cashybles from the cockpit Later this feashyture was modified and ailerons of considerably less chord and higher asshypect ratio were mounted below the wings near the tips

The Burnelli plane has side by side seating arrangement and is of the open type The span of the machine with tip ailerons was 49 ft and the length overall 26 ft while the wing area was 216 sq ft The fuselage is 8 ft wide and 15 ft long while the overshyall height of the plane is 9 ft 4 in The weight empty is 1640 Ibs and the gross weight is 2590 Ibs

Immediately after its presentation at Mitchell Field the Burnelli monoshyplane was returned to Keyport New Jersey for modifications A deadline of November 30 was set by the comshypetition committee for its return but the aircraft did not appear and thus it was eliminated from the Safe Aircraft Competition It would have been inshyteresting to have known its abilities bull

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Sc ra tch th e s urface and yo u ll find so me thin g inte restin g Dig dee per and yo u ll find so me thin g fascin a ting If yo u re a hi s to ry hound a s m os t AnshytiqueClassic members are then you know thi s old saw about delving into aviati ons past

Co nside r th e n the pre war cabin a nshytiques on a fly- in display row Their unobshytrusive ways are a staple of fl y- ins since before we ve eve n had an antique moveshyment Compare the cabin planes easygoshying stance now though to a time 50 years ago wh e n th ey went to war in th e tru est se nse flyin g arm ed a ttack-and -destroy f li ght s aga in st a hostile invade r o f th e United States which had placed maraudshying uniformed military troops within 100 mil es o f th e nation s capital a nd within eyesight of New York City

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Tucked away in the ra tions memory is the time ea rly in WW II when Nazi Gershymany sailed an invading fleet to U S washyte rs roamin g nea rly at fr ee will Th e fl eet of course was entirely subm arines and they appeared only six weeks aft er

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by Roger Thiel (Ale 1817)

Pearl Harbor a nd to rp e do ed ships both military and regrettably civilian

The strategic implicati o ns we re harsh Sinkings rose from 12 in January 1942 to 52 in May threatening our ability to wage war in Europe and to sustain England and its strategic posture as a foothold to eve nshytually liberate the Continent

Worse yet the U S Navys priority in th e Pacific left th e Atl anti c severe ly unshyde rguarded as factori es frantically tooled up to muster what was to beco me th e

sleeping giant s terrible resolve A s e a rly as 1939 Ne w J e rsey St a te

Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson and other aviators of the day had sensed what might ha ppe n a nd pre pare d a plan by which civilian airpl anes and pilots might relieve th e regul a r milita ry of patrolling the coast in the event of war As the storm clouds of war darke ned they pressed the case which res ulted in th e formation o f the Civil Air Patrol on December 1 1941 By th ese s ix days th e re fore th e C A P b egan be fo re Pea rl H a rb o r a nd th e n moved quickl y to organi ze over the win shyter

C A P Base Two at Rehoboth Beach Delaware bega n ope rations on February 26 1942 flyin g Fairchilds and Stinsons on makeshift patrol eve n be fore supplies arshyrived Within a mo nth a full squadro n type operation was working - with about 20 airplanes mostly utilizing the Fairchild 24 a nd Stinso n Voyager Othe r Bases used ca bin Wacos the large Stinso n fl a t wings and Reli ants Ryan SCWs and othshyers The patrol of course required cabin pl anes ra ther than ope n cockpit capable of carrying two pilots and later bombs or depth charges

Flying single engine and up to 50 miles out engine maintenance was an absolute priority One unit had a standing rule that the mechanic would fly right seat on the first over water flight fo llowing engine work

Rehoboth Base CO Holger Hoiriis summoned a well-known area mechanic Everett Smitty Smith whose genius kept the Squadron on patrol Early preshycautionary engine overhauls were undershytaken to supplement continuing inspecshytion and repair By late spring Base Two had a full squadron of uniformed pilots mechanics and radio operators

We fly by the grace of God and Smitty the squadron pilots would say Among his make do inventions for Fairchilds were a quick release door sysshytem in case of at sea ditching and the placement of several empty five gallon tins soldered shut in the tail cones This flotation system worked in the event of a ditch by keeping the tail feathers above water saving the plane giving the pilots something to hang onto and made the emshypennage become a search marker that was visible for miles Maintenance was mostly accomplished outdoors and pilots not flyshying were often pressed to help at least as tool passers

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

Major Tom Daniels eo of Base 6 St Simons Island Georgia in Ryan sew with he spotted an enemy submarine cruising bomb racks below with their de pth charges setting

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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CIVIL AIR PATROL

WWII COASTAL PATROLANTI-SUBMARINE BASES

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20 BAR HARBOR MAINE 19 PORTLAND MAINE 18 FA LM OUTH (Cape Codl MASSAC HUSETTS 17 SUFFOLK (Long Island) NEW YO RK

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

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must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

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and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

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July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

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August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

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Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

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October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Sc ra tch th e s urface and yo u ll find so me thin g inte restin g Dig dee per and yo u ll find so me thin g fascin a ting If yo u re a hi s to ry hound a s m os t AnshytiqueClassic members are then you know thi s old saw about delving into aviati ons past

Co nside r th e n the pre war cabin a nshytiques on a fly- in display row Their unobshytrusive ways are a staple of fl y- ins since before we ve eve n had an antique moveshyment Compare the cabin planes easygoshying stance now though to a time 50 years ago wh e n th ey went to war in th e tru est se nse flyin g arm ed a ttack-and -destroy f li ght s aga in st a hostile invade r o f th e United States which had placed maraudshying uniformed military troops within 100 mil es o f th e nation s capital a nd within eyesight of New York City

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Tucked away in the ra tions memory is the time ea rly in WW II when Nazi Gershymany sailed an invading fleet to U S washyte rs roamin g nea rly at fr ee will Th e fl eet of course was entirely subm arines and they appeared only six weeks aft er

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by Roger Thiel (Ale 1817)

Pearl Harbor a nd to rp e do ed ships both military and regrettably civilian

The strategic implicati o ns we re harsh Sinkings rose from 12 in January 1942 to 52 in May threatening our ability to wage war in Europe and to sustain England and its strategic posture as a foothold to eve nshytually liberate the Continent

Worse yet the U S Navys priority in th e Pacific left th e Atl anti c severe ly unshyde rguarded as factori es frantically tooled up to muster what was to beco me th e

sleeping giant s terrible resolve A s e a rly as 1939 Ne w J e rsey St a te

Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson and other aviators of the day had sensed what might ha ppe n a nd pre pare d a plan by which civilian airpl anes and pilots might relieve th e regul a r milita ry of patrolling the coast in the event of war As the storm clouds of war darke ned they pressed the case which res ulted in th e formation o f the Civil Air Patrol on December 1 1941 By th ese s ix days th e re fore th e C A P b egan be fo re Pea rl H a rb o r a nd th e n moved quickl y to organi ze over the win shyter

C A P Base Two at Rehoboth Beach Delaware bega n ope rations on February 26 1942 flyin g Fairchilds and Stinsons on makeshift patrol eve n be fore supplies arshyrived Within a mo nth a full squadro n type operation was working - with about 20 airplanes mostly utilizing the Fairchild 24 a nd Stinso n Voyager Othe r Bases used ca bin Wacos the large Stinso n fl a t wings and Reli ants Ryan SCWs and othshyers The patrol of course required cabin pl anes ra ther than ope n cockpit capable of carrying two pilots and later bombs or depth charges

Flying single engine and up to 50 miles out engine maintenance was an absolute priority One unit had a standing rule that the mechanic would fly right seat on the first over water flight fo llowing engine work

Rehoboth Base CO Holger Hoiriis summoned a well-known area mechanic Everett Smitty Smith whose genius kept the Squadron on patrol Early preshycautionary engine overhauls were undershytaken to supplement continuing inspecshytion and repair By late spring Base Two had a full squadron of uniformed pilots mechanics and radio operators

We fly by the grace of God and Smitty the squadron pilots would say Among his make do inventions for Fairchilds were a quick release door sysshytem in case of at sea ditching and the placement of several empty five gallon tins soldered shut in the tail cones This flotation system worked in the event of a ditch by keeping the tail feathers above water saving the plane giving the pilots something to hang onto and made the emshypennage become a search marker that was visible for miles Maintenance was mostly accomplished outdoors and pilots not flyshying were often pressed to help at least as tool passers

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

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A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

Send your restoration project photos to

What Our Members Are Restoring co Editor Vintage Airplane

EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086

Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

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Flying single engine and up to 50 miles out engine maintenance was an absolute priority One unit had a standing rule that the mechanic would fly right seat on the first over water flight fo llowing engine work

Rehoboth Base CO Holger Hoiriis summoned a well-known area mechanic Everett Smitty Smith whose genius kept the Squadron on patrol Early preshycautionary engine overhauls were undershytaken to supplement continuing inspecshytion and repair By late spring Base Two had a full squadron of uniformed pilots mechanics and radio operators

We fly by the grace of God and Smitty the squadron pilots would say Among his make do inventions for Fairchilds were a quick release door sysshytem in case of at sea ditching and the placement of several empty five gallon tins soldered shut in the tail cones This flotation system worked in the event of a ditch by keeping the tail feathers above water saving the plane giving the pilots something to hang onto and made the emshypennage become a search marker that was visible for miles Maintenance was mostly accomplished outdoors and pilots not flyshying were often pressed to help at least as tool passers

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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mans hands by February 15 1993

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

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July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

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Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Funding for the CAP did not come through fully until summer forcing varishyous bases to near comic scarcity In Beaushymont Texas Base 10 reportedly augshymented its budget by selling bales of rubber that washed ashore from freighters torpedoed in the Gulf by the very enemies they wished to fight

New Jersey s Base One about to be evicted from their housing and with help from National Headq uarters sti ll caught in red tape we nt to local oil companies in sheer desperation They argued that their patrol helped the oil companies directly by saving their tankers saving them money and helping the morale of the ships crews That afternoon the cash tills of area gas stations were emptied to help the Base

The CAP had to buy their own gasoshyline and in most states pay tax on it as well They begged and borrowed equipshyment and received gifts from States towns counties Chambers of Commerce and individuals By th e patrol s end CAP members had spent about a million dollars of their own money helping on anshytisub patrol

By lat e summer 21 bases had been formed ex tending from Bar Harbor Ma in e down all of the East Coast to Florida and then around Florida s West Coast all a round the Gulf and down to Brownsville Texas

Pilots everywhere comment on the bad weather in which they fly but CAPs anshytisub patrol was something indeed With th e regular military grounded CAP would patrol Over the Gulf haze was anshyother prob le m leaving no visual horizon Atlantic pilots were often caught under a ceiling as low as 100 feet racing for home due ha rd West into a hea d wind radio

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The CAPs low search a ltitude was another advantage over the military at under 1000 feet and considerably slower they could spot more items on the ocean s surface Against U-boats their existence as an airplane - of any size - was enough to submerge the sub upon first visual conshytact

Sev e ral CA P pilots spotted subshymarines during this time Off Florida a CAP plane spotted a U-boat which raced away and stranded its e lf on a sandbar Unarmed they flew over it continuously frantica lly calling for the regular military

to arrive and destroy it By the time an armed plane showed up the sub had esshycaped

The CAP had been pleading to be armed and this incident finally got them bombs and depth charges Cutting into the fabric under the cabins bomb racks we re installed and two lanyards placed in the cabi n floors one for arm the other to drop Bombs and their racks were of course military hardware But the methshyods of attaching them were a bit different on each airplane Remember this was war Weight and balance were calculated the fabric cut and shackles welded or bolted onto longerons The 3-place Stinshyson Voyagers received one 100 pound bomb Fairchilds one 200 pound bomb and the large Stinsons one 325 pound depth charge with the bottom fin hackshysawed off for ground clearance Holes were drilled in sheet metal planes such as a Ryan SCWs belly for the racks designed to hold one or two 100 pound bombs or in a Grumman Widgeon s wings for two 325 pound depth charges

Flying off an unpaved field and with 200 pounds of explosives a few feet away one Rehoboth pilot recalled I flew the most careful takeoffs and landings of my life A homemade bombsight was atshytached to the fuselageS left side with surshyprisingly good results up to 3000 feet Practical drop altitude of course was much lower

On July 17 1942 Wynant Farr and Johnny Haggin were flying an a rmed Grumman Widgeon out of Base One at Bader Field Atl a ntic City New J ersey Farr had left his cardboard box business to serve as CO of Base One Haggin and

Major Tom Daniels eo of Base 6 St Simons Island Georgia in Ryan sew with he spotted an enemy submarine cruising bomb racks below with their de pth charges setting

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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in case they ditched at sea and were picked up (or shot down) by a U-boat they would be treated as POWs and not spies (There is no record though of this ever happenshying) Celebrities of the day who flew with CAP included air minded actor Bob Cummings concert pianist Jose Iturbi acshytor Lee J Cobb actress Mary Astor and film director Henry King

When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

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A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

Send your restoration project photos to

What Our Members Are Restoring co Editor Vintage Airplane

EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086

Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

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They trailed the unmistakable silhouette for three hours and had almost exhausted their fuel when the sub came up almost to periscope depth They dropped both depth charges and saw the sub half lift out of the water then sink stern first at a high stricken angle It left a patch of oil and much debris Since this debris was conshyfirmable they were credited with a sub kill

Base personnel received a per diem of between $5 and $8 a day when it showed up Plane owners were additionally comshypensated about $10 an hour Out of this they had to buy gas and pay for the mainshytenance of the plane by the base mechanic There was allowance also for depreciation and insurance There was though no room for profiteers one pilot calculated that all his compensations after expenses brought him a monthly salary of under ten dollars

Their facilities ranged from well equipped Bases such as Pascagoula Misshysissippi or Beaumont Texas to primitive such as Grand Isle Louisiana where they flew off a nearby highway and had an abandoned hote l with no electricity for their headquarters In Parksley Virginia pilots had to excavate a runway by manual labor and convert a chicken coop as barshyracks

When war broke out Zack Mosleys famous syndicated aviation cartoon strip hero Smilin Jack joined the Army Air Corps in a move praised by the U S govshyernment as an aid to recruiting Jacks cartoon friend Downwind Jaxon (the fellow whose face you never saw) became a CAP antisub pilot in a mirror of the real life experiences of creator Mosley who fl ew regular over water missions in his flat wing Stinson for Florida s Lantana Base Three Mosley has remained a longshytime friend of CAP and permanent pubshylic relations fixture to this day

Patrol planes were marked as CAP

Squadron aircraft by painting the blue cirshycle and white triangle symbol of Civil Deshyfense The red three-bladed propeller in the middle has always been part of CAPs symbol but was withheld from Coastal Patrol planes for the same reason that removed the red portion of the AAFs insignia early in the war - the similarity to the red Japanese meatball Some squadrons then added their own tail numshybers and a custom emblem near the enshygine cowling Rehoboth used the states Blue Hen symbol Cartoonist Mosleys Florida base created the famous exshyhausted dog symbol adopted later by other bases The planes retained their various original civilian paint schemes over which these markings were added

The antisub squadrons were a cross sect ion of civil aviation Base Officers tended to be those who were very air minded before the war Many pilots didnt meet military age or physical requireshyments Their ranks included veterans of WW I who had fought Ge rmans before both on the land and in th e air CAP provided no deferments from the draft and many pilots were already sworn into the regular military but waiting to be called

Not all CAP members were red white and blue patriots but there was no room for opportunists A fellow who couldnt fly his cabin plane anymore beshycause of wartime restrictions might come to a CAP base with the idea of logging some paid for time but the pure exigenshycies of the patrol made this thinking pale - although to their credit almost all of these few elected to stay Active Duty members were subject to Articles of War although serving as civilians They signed contracts for three months six months or (or the duration This put them responshysible to but under the protection of full military jurisdiction CAP pilots wore a patch with the letters U S This was so

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When a base reached full authorized strength it would have 78 personnel total in the full scope of specialties from pilots to guards with substantial cross utilization of personnel Twenty-five to thirty planes were authorized plus ideally an amphibshyian for rescue

A typical mission day for an antisub pishylot would be to wake up predawn in rented or donated civilian housing put on a unishyform and catch a ride in someones car out to the airport Then additionally don a zoot suit a large rubber floatation colshylar and clamber into a Fairchild 24 as eishyther pilot or observer take off into pretty much any weather where you could see

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

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any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

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tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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25th ANTISUBMARINE WING BASE

20 BAR HARBOR MAINE 19 PORTLAND MAINE 18 FA LM OUTH (Cape Codl MASSAC HUSETTS 17 SUFFOLK (Long Island) NEW YO RK

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4 PARKSLEY V IRG INIA 16 MANTEO NORTH CARO LI NA 21 BEAUFORT NORTH CARO LI NA 8 CHARLESTON (St James Islel SOUTH CA ROLI NA 6 BRUNSWICK 1St Smon s Islandl GEORGIA

26th ANTISUBMARINE WING BA SE

FLAGLER BEACH FLO RIDA LANTANA FLOR IDA

7 MIAMI FLOR IDA 13 SARASOTA FLOR IDA 14 PANAMA CITY FLORIDA 11 PASCAGOU LA MISSISS IPP I 9 GRAND ISLE LOU ISI ANA 10 BEAU MONT TEXAS 15 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS 12 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS

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the tops of the trees and fly in a form ashytion of two planes o ut to sea

Communicating on small one watt rashyd io se ts (or littl e be tte r) th ey wo uld fl y over water to the ir ass igned grid relying for pos iti o n o n sho re obj ects o r buoys T hey fl e a sea rch a lt itude o f 500-1 000 feet up to 50 miles out noting such oddishyt ies as fl oa tin g wreckage de bri s or o il slicks and even something as special as a raft full of survivors of a sinking A n ac shytu a l bogey was of co urse a surface d submari ne or periscopes fea ther wake

Flying ove r milit ary or civilian shipshyping th ei r prese nce was always apprecishyated by a wave fro m the deck Occasionshyally they would provide full air escort for a con voy passi ng throu g h th e ir patrol a rea T hey had no parac hutes fl ying nowhere near enough altitude to use them At first they had no life vests but re lied on car inner tubes stacked on the back fl oor In some waters a canvas sock was woshyve n to th e inne r t ub e a ba rr ac ud a bucket

Th eir bigges t e ne my was by fa r a n ove r sea e ngin e fa ilure a nd th e fo rced ditching th at e nsued Membe rs who sur shyvive d thi s a re CA P s Duc k C lub equivalent to the Caterpillar Cl ub

On July 211942 a distress call came in a t Rehoboth O ne plane had ditched a t sea and its sister ship was now circling the single survivor New Base One CO Hugh Sharp and pilot Eddie Edwards took off in the squadrons Sikorsky S-39 amphibian originall y built of co urse for light inland

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wa te rs but no w ke pt fo r ocea n r esc ue They landed in high ocea n swe lls brea kshying o ff a win g tip fl oa t in th e process They picked up the injured pilot and un shyable to take off began to tax i through the sea With on e win g tip di gg ing in E d shywards crawled out onto the opposite wing ba la ncing th e p la ne D ar kn ess fe ll a nd th ey tax ied th ro ugh th e wh ole ni ght fi shynally arriving at shore by dawn Edwards ha nd s we re numb fr ozen to th e win g struts The injured pilot la te r recovered and Sharp and Edwards were personall y awarded the Air Medal by President Rooshysevelt

Another irony of their combat was that it too k place in a pa rt of the co untry th at peopl e had always flock ed to for e nte r shytainment and relaxation Tourists came to th e ir beaches to e nj oy th e mse lves saw C A P a nd suspec ted th e ir purpose but the C AP personne l couldn t of course discuss their mission

Nighttime offshore explosions brought silhouettes of orange out a t sea a torpeshydoed tanker The CAP could not fly efshyfectively a t night when the submarines did their worst work There was a military imshyposed blackout of the news ye t th e shore people could h ardly ove rl ook wh a t was ha ppe nin g Th e resor t beaches we re stai ned with o il a nd occas io na l de bris even bodies washed in from a sinking

Some me mbers were loca l voluntee rs and lived in the ir own homes journeying da il y to war in a spirit aptly summa rized by the title of the de finitive 1947 book on

C A P Flying Minute Men Some fl iers wives li ve d nea rby coming to be ne ar the ir husba nds Back at ho me so me pi shylo ts wives took fac tory jobs and were supshyportin g th emse lves a nd th eir chil dre n so thei r husbands could be free to fly

Wome n we re pa rt of the C A P fro m th e s ta rt a nd fl ew o n a ll d uti es except coastal patrol Several wore uniforms and ass isted a t antisub bases in radi o o pera shyti o ns and Base admin istra ti on CA Ps cade t program bega n during th e a nti sub era in Octobe r 1942 a nd incl ud ed ma le and fe male cadets from the beginning

These anecdo tes give an o ve rvie w of the coasta l patro l a nd include highlights The reality of patrol and sea rch th ough was of long hou rs of flyin g in mo no to ny and tedium T he overwhe lming majority of the CAPs experience was simply conshyfirmin g th a t a ll th ose sq ua r e mil es of empty ocean out there was indeed empty A fter a six ho ur fli ght especially during the winter pilots would often requi re asshysistance to disembark and would be aided by tw o me n lik e a n injure d foot b all pl aye r to res um e wa lking a roun d th e base

By th e summ e r of 1943 th e reg ul ar military had tooled up wh ile the U-boats prese nce was dramatica lly less thanks in p a rt to th e effo rt s of th e C A P i tse lf A ugust 31st was the final day operatio ns ceased a nd some sq uadro ns di sba nde d while others were transferred in mass to othe r work in the countrys inte rior The anti sub patro l had las ted jus t exac tl y 18 mo nths There was no Pac ific coas t pashytrol based on Naval presence there

In additi o n to coas ta l pa t ro l o the r WW II e fforts of the CAP included the South ern Liaiso n patro l along th e Mex ishycan bo rde r to gua rd aga inst infiltrat ing spies and sabotage Other inland branches were Co uri e r Se rvice Pipe line Surve il shylance Tow-Target Forest Patrol Power Lin e Patrol a nd A ircraf t Sea rch do ne throughout the co untry to re lieve the regshyul ar military of these duties These inte shyr ior mi ss io ns were not limited to cabin pl a nes The sea rch angle of course has survived to this day the modern CAP is continuo usly cited for lives saved by their Search and Rescue efforts th roughout the country whil e the ir cadet aerospace edushyca tio n program is a frequent first entry into aviation fo r many of Americas youth

T here was also a wartime boating coun shyte rpart to the C A P converted yachts of th e Coas t Gu a rd Rese rve ( now A uxi lshyiary) armed with machine-guns and someshytimes with depth charges There is one inshycide nt o n reco rd in which a Coas t Guard Reserve boat charged a surface d submashyrine with its machine-gun and the U-boat submerged

The cAPs civili an ha nds story is similar to E ngland s fa med Dunkirk evacshyuat io n where in most of the re treating A lshyli ed Arm y was sa ved in May 1940 when

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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hundreds of small private boats evacuated troops from waters too shallow for fullshysize ships The hinge of fate element too can t be avoided fro the American side had the U-boats slaughter in U S waters gone on unabated England could have fallen great ly protracting o u r method of Axis defeat

CAP was cited after the War by the Navy AAF and U S government as havshying contributed greatly They are credited wi th two submarine kills they dropped bombs 82 times and reported 173 sightshyings some of which were before they were armed (The number of kills is probab ly more than two but even Navy destroyers were often unsure of a sub kil l And with lost information on ly one CAP kill is known now the Grumman Widgeon incishydent mentioned earlier The other was

rumored to be by a Stinson Voyager flyshying out of Florida but historians stress this is only a rumor and is not known)

CAP flew 86685 antisub missions in 244600 hours Vessels in distress reshyported 91 floating mines spotted 17 surshyvivors reported 363 air crew rescued at sea 129 There were 26 fatalities almost all in the aftermath of an engine failure forced ditch at sea

In 1948 Air Medals were presented to coastal patrol pilots who had logged 300 hours of active duty

On todays antique display line then consider the posture of these flying plowshyshares It s kind of like being told that many years ago mild mannered Grandpa foiled a bank robbery and then never talked about it because he just considered it part of his life

After the war as the planes reentered civilian service many were rumored to be the one that sunk a sub All of WW II had been such an exertion that record keeping from CAP s first years was a very low priority Sadly most wartime records were simply discarded after the war This included the aircraft and engine logbooks

A friend of mine described how he first realized several years ago that his Fairchild 24 had been used to fight Hitler Taking the old fabric off for recovering in the mid-1950s he noted some unusual brackets welded to the bottom longeron tubes Had his plane been fitted with floats It didn t check out He contacted a former owner who revealed the planes unique history Not every coastal patrol veteran plane though has such vivid evishydence

If you think your antique airplane might have served in CAP first of course check your older logbooks If you have what seems like a decent set of logshybooks but they mysteriously start in 1943shy1946 and your plane was built before then -look further if you can because lost log-

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

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Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

16 JULY 1992

bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

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October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Mirwood Starkey of Mooreland IN has painted his Fairchild 24 in the markings of CAP Base Three complete with the logo designed by Zack Mosley This particular Fairchild did serve with the CAP during the war complete with a bomb rack similar to t he one you see mounted on Mirwoods plane Zack Mosley used this exact airshyplane as the model for the Fairchild 24 shown in his Smilin Jack comic strip reproshyduced on this month s back cover

books of the WW 1 era seem to apply to many ex-CAP planes Your next step is to send a note and a check to the FAA in Oklahoma with your current and former N-numbers requesting your whole airshycraft file back to new (Editors Note See the item in this months AC News on page 3 for more information on how to do this - HGF) It will be the oldest records on the CAA forms which may tell the history Despite exigencies of war full civilian type repair forms were supposed to be kept - as if this was just another domestic activity for the airplane

From the FAA youll get a piece of mishycrofiche go to the library with a roll of coins to make up a readable copy which is a great thing to have with your airplane anyway Examine the nature of the old records for a clue There have been form 337s for a bomb rack including Weight and Balance You may also get a clue on reasons for repair following over water operations patrol etc Also check for when the plane was converted back to civilian Compare the addresses and reshypair data on the forms to the base locashytions on the map herein (For inland locashytions as well you could also use an AOPA Guide and call the airport if it still exists personnel will often know their airports history)

Antisub bases also included an occashysional Monocoupe Rearwin Bellanca Ercoupe Cessna Airmaster Beech Stagshygerwing and others Also it was possible for an over water patrol plane to not be armed based on availability of munitions Piper Cubs Aeroncas and many others were also kept for general use at many bases and open cockpit types were used for CAP operations in the interior of the country

14JULY1992

Happily a few restorations are coming along and it looks like the first in antisub livery will be at EAA Oshkosh 92 in time for the 50 year anniversary of Coasta l Pashytrol A Fairchild 24 from Indiana has been restored to include markings bombshysight and dummy bomb And the antique owner will have the choice of parking his airplane in the Warbird area or in the AnshytiqueClassic line even with the dummy bomb in place The un iqueness of that display on the air show line will only unshyderscore the uniqueness of the combat sitshyuation they waged

The CAP has conducted a recognishytion plaque program for ex-coastal patrol and other active duty airplanes Historishyans have some Squadron lists but scarcity of records mean they may ask the current owner for evidence of patrol involvement Whether your microfiche yields anything or not you can contact Capt Frank Myshyers CAP 1430 SW 12th Avenue Suite 1612 Portland OR 9720l The official CAP National Historian is Col Lester E Hopper 3530 Mimosa Court New Orshyleans LA 70131

After being tucked away for decades this era is finally surfacing in the national consciousness Two recent books are available on the U-boat invasion Operashytion Drumbeat by Michael Gannon and Torpedo Junction by Homer Hickam and both can be ordered from your bookstore Other books and projects about the CAP itself are happi ly in the works as this amazing chapter of American history is fishynally being told CAP has reprinted Flyshying Minute Men call their bookstore at Maxwell AFB Alabama at 800633-8768 for an order form

Last summer Atlantic divers anshynounced they had found a previously unshy

known U-boat wreck 65 miles off Point Pleasant New Jersey It is a very likely candidate as the Farr and Haggin kill Reshysearch is being undertaken now

Some of the antisub bases are gone Located of course near the Atlantic coast their real estate values have skyshyrocketed around a populace that (as EAAers know) is not always air minded

The most glowing report of CA Ps success may have come from an ex-Gershyman sub captain interviewed as a POW at the end of the war When asked what had been his biggest problem in waging war on the U S coast 3000 miles from home in what for him was a desolate lonely subshymerged and perilous existence his reply was It vas dose amp little red and yelshylow airplanes

A Washington DC printer Roger Thiel has researched the CAP antisub patrol since 1977 and is the author of numerous factual and creative works concerning this part of American history Thiel owns two antiques a 19411-5 Cub and a 1938 Ryan SCW which served on antisub patrol Base Six in Georgia He has conducted a forum on this topic in the AntiqueClassic tent at Oshkosh each year since 1984 This year it will be Wednesday August 5 at 230 pm There may also be daily discussion groups alongside restored aircraft Contact him at 13]9 Naylor Court N w Washington DC 20001

AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

16 JULY 1992

bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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22 JULY 1992

SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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AUSTERJ1

by Norm Petersen

A chance phone call on behalf of a small ad in Trade-A-Plane resulted in this rather unique story of Dan Norton (EAA 227634) Tucson Arizona and his Auster 11 Autocrat - a genuine aeroshyplane from jolly olde England

Dan who was born on Christmas day 1955 found the aircraft in the back of a barn at an airfield called Hill Farm Nayland England in 1987 At the time he was stationed in England with the U S Air Force The Auster a 1947 model with a Blackburn Cirrus Minor lIA enshygine of 100 hp was in dire need of some TLC A few months later Dan purshychased the airplane and fl ew it locally Auster G-AHSW hangared in a barn at Hill Farm Nayland England in a very neshyon every weekend until luly of 87 when glected condition Note wing-mounted generator it was flown to the PFA Rally at Cranshyfield It was a great time says Dan A month later the Auster was disasshysembled and containerized for shipment to Tucson Arizona as Dan was transshyfered to Davis Monthan AFB for a new assignment

In only 30 days the Auster arrrived at Ryan Field in Tucson where it was assembled temporarily and the decision was made to restore the neat old classic For those of you unfamiliar with the marque the Auster has its roots in the Taylorcraft design from the United States A close look will soon spot the similarities in the wing airfoil section (NACA 23012) the tail section and the landing gear The British registration letters were G-AHSW when Dan Cirrus Minor II installed with prop and cowling

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

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bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

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August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

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September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

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October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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With all glass installed the Auster is ready for engine installation

G-AHSW cleaned up and relicensed Covering was linen at the time and it just barely passed the punch test Later that year it attended the PFA Rally at Cranfield

16 JULY 1992

bought the Auster Ne ve r havin g res to red a n a ircraf t

be fo re Dan was a bit a ppre he nsive about s uch a tas k but by ta king pi cshytures of each part as it was re moved the ch a nce improved of ge tting each piece back in place The basic airframe was glass beaded to ba re me ta l a ll atshytach points were dye checked for cracks and it was then zinc and epoxy primed for lo ng t e rm prese rvation All stringers and bad wood in the structure were replaced and ca refully varnished The e ntire a irp lane was the n cove red with Stits 0103 fabric Dan has ca reshyfull y sewn in the zippe rs for inspection and service access as per original

A s the Blackburn Cirrus Minor Ila en gine was runnin g fin e prior to restora tion Dan did no t feel it necesshysa ry to tea r it down He just dra ined the o il cleaned up the appearance and install ed it in the airframe (The Cirshyrus hangs in four rubber mounts on a bed-type mount the cylinders pointing straight down) D a n was a lmost unshypre pa re d for th e lo ud noi se th a t spewed forth on the six th pull o f th e prop - the Cirrus came to life and ran

Antifyre Pistole mounted at right wingroot next to data plate

lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

The recovering job has go ne we ll in spite of Dan havin g to spe nd tim e in the hospital with hand surge ry and its

Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

Dan has purchased a chunk of land to build an airstrip and re luctantly has d e cided to se ll th e Au ste r to som e lucky buye r His tiny ad in Trade-AshyPlane is what go t this whol e story started

View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

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This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

24 JULY 1992

whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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lik e th e pro ve rbi a l watch E ve n though the Minor IIa is equipped with a starter and generato r Dan prefers to hand prop the engine when the batte ry is doubtful He reported the oil presshysure was steady a t 40 psi The biggest problem was his good fri end who susshypec te d he was pro ppin g th e e ngin e backwards (English engines turn opshyposite [ 0 American engines - counte rshyclockwise whe n viewed from th e pi shy

lo t s sea t) Th e e ngin e has a so und a kin to a Model A Ford a lbeit a bit lo ud e r with the four sho rt e xh a us t stacks Dan reports it is a remarkably smooth and gutsy e ngine a nd he has run the mill on nume ro us occas io ns The engine logs indica te th eir are 947 hours on the engine

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Rear bench seat for two small people inshystalled (Or 300 pounds of baggage)

accompanying recooperation time At the last report he had covered all parts a nd wa s spray in g s il ve r on th e la st aileron before starting reassembly

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View of controls and cabin Heel brakes on left side only Left w ing with anti-chaff tape and lower fabric installed

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

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Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

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July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

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Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING -----------------------------------------------------------byNormnPetersen

Dugg Holmans Luscombe SA

This very nice looking 1946 Luscombe 8A N77922 SIN 3649 is the proud posshysession of 25-year-old Dugg Holman (EAA 394631 AIC 18145) of Wichita Falls Texas Duggs grandfather bought the Luscombe in 1952 for $650 (The going price in those days of excess airplanes and few buyers - Ed) and after many years gave the Luscombe to Dugg in 1987 It was 1991 before Dugg had the two-placer ready to return to the air and now he enshyjoys the airplane on a regular basis The total time on airplane and engine (Contishynental A65) is 11716 hours and Dugg says With a 10 kt crosswind its more fun to land than a T-38 no flap at 200 mph Dugg is an Air Force fighter pilot by trade and is stationed at Wichita Falls TX Besides a nice Silvaire paint scheme on its all-metal finish the Lusshycombe sports an original set of wheelshypants a McCauley 74x49 metal prop and a special preference for small grass strips with a good breakfast

Warren Lhurs KR-31 Challenger Project

Progress is being made in the restorashytion of Fairchild KR-31 NC281K SIN 320 a distinctly unique airplane in that it was purchased new on August 6 1929 by Samuel L Burke of Belleville Pennshysylvania and owned by him until his death in 1976 The Challenger was purchased from the Sam Burke Estate by Warren Lhurs who in turn asked John (Jack) Robinson (EAA 34949 AIC 16219) of OBrien FL to restore the nicely preserved biplane for him The KR-31 was last flown in 1960 and had been carefully stored since that time Included with the airplane was an extra OX-5 engine and parts that will combine to make at least one good enshygine - with a little help The fabric on the airplane is original from 1929 and Jack is carefully saving the rudder fabric that has the Challenger insignia on it along with the registration number and on the bottom it says Approved Type No 13 which is the ATC for this airshyplane (When is the last time you saw an airplane with the ATC number on the tail)

We especially wish to commend the executors of Sam Burkes estate his daughters Jane and Frances for allowshying this beautiful old Challenger biplane to be acquired by a concerned restorer such as Warren Lhurs And to Jack Robinson we say Keep up the good work

18 JULY 1992

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING ---------------------------- by Norm Petersen

the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

Engle Bros Piper Lmiddot4A

This nicely restored 1942 Piper 0shy59A (L-4A) N59941 SIN 42-15299 was manufactured on February 13 1942 for

Taylor Emiddot2 Cub NC2122

Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

L-4A is notably accurate in detail and represents a great deal of research on the part of the owners The smiling gentleman in the rear seat is the boys father about to go for a spin

Send your restoration project photos to

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

24 JULY 1992

whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

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the U S Army and spent most of its service life with the Army ground forces in World War II It is owned by two brothers Joe Engle (EAA390011 AC 17457) of Houston TX and Jon Engle

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Manufactured at Bradford PA on May 211934 this Taylor E-2 Cub NC2122 SIN 84 is the handiwork of Richard Dick Simpson (EAA 92944 AC 1568) of Birmingham Alshyabama Owned a t one time by vetshyeran antiquer Chet Peek of Norman OK the basket case E-2 was purshychased from Gil Brownlow of Austin TX The rebuild included new landshying gear new wing spars tip bows and all new sheet me tal Other non-facshytory additions include airspeed comshypass and tailwheel It also has J-2 top cowl scoops behind the exposed cylinshyders for better cooling The E-2 was covered in Ceconite 102 with butyrate dope Dicks wife Joan not only sewed the envelopes but did most of the ribstitching on the wings The original factory empty weight was 523 lbs and the finished Simpson reshybuild empty weight was 544 lbs Dick reports the Cub flies very nice on the 40 hp Continental A40 - in fact be tter than anyone expected

(EAA 390012 AIC 17458) of Tucson AZ A two year restoration was completed by David Cooper Cooper Airshycraft Wolfs Airpark of Manvil Texas with much asshysistance from the Engle brothers father Joe Engle Sr who is a retired space shuttle astronaut When finshyished the L-4A was flown from Texas to Tucson AZ by Jon Engle and his father in what he described as a great experience for a father and son Jon who is an Air Force A-lO pilot by trade and a Gulf War veteran says they really enjoyed the long cross country trip at 70 mph The

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

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by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Yuh got this overrunning here but by the time you get to Iowa it ll clear off he said

Id looked at the route profiles drawn by the last few trips to arrive at Chicagos Midway Airport No one was high enough to show the tops and with our first stop at Moline we wouldnt get high enough either I asked if he d had any reports of turbulence

Nope he said That front Ive got drawn on the map is quite weak About the only change as it passes is that this darn rain stops It has dawdled long enough now and with this being Friday I m ready for the rain to quit Tomorshyrow is my day off With that the comshypany meteorologist left to give a briefing to an east bound crew

Whose turn is it to fly copilot I asked the two assigned to this noontime

20 JULY 1992

by Don Toeppen (Ale 7836)

departure Pat Patterson our President had decided all cockpit crew members had to be pilots He now had a surplus for just this purpose and the bottom men on the seniority list were going to be trained to be flight engineers or Secshyond Officers as United referred to them It is a bore to be a pilot and have to ride the jump seat Theoretically the junior man was not supposed to fly copilot just sit there and watch When school started hed be off to class But these men were still current so we played mushysical chairs

Well its Buck Hilberts turn to sit on the jump seat said Tom Gebo I get to fly

OK make us out a flight plan Were not going to get on top of this stuff today so make it out at 4000 feet on the first leg After that whatever you want just as long as we can make schedshy

ule I said In a DC-3 it was only an hour from

Midway to Moline With 21 passengers on board the stewardess would be hard pressed We did our walk-around cockshypit setup and were away from the blocks on schedule in spite of that incessant rain Tom picked up our ATC clearance from the tower and we were underway

The air was as smooth as a mill pond so r turned off the seat belt sign while we were still climbing With that Hilbert said he d go back and help the stewardess

The DC-3 buffet was not quite the luxury fitting contained in today s jets An insulated section held ceramic casseroles that had been hea ted at the flight kitchen Hopefully this would keep the hot meals at least warm until the passengers got them The cold tray setups were in two large metal containshy

ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

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ers that were just inside the rear cargo pit The access door was small and the doorsill was a good 18 inches high The smaller girls had one rough time lifting the containers over that sill To have a crew member come back to do the liftshying was heaven The service went much faster if the helper set up the trays the stewardess could then concentrate on serving the passengers Tom and Buck had become quite proficient at the bufshyfet setup procedure

After the girl had served the first few she called to see if one of us wanted to eat I told Tom to have at it Copishylots eat fast captains take forever Many times Ive starved waiting for some senior airman to chew each mouthful 50 times and vowed never to do that to a copilot

The cabin door opened and the stewshyardess came forward through the comshypanionway and set a dinner of shrimp creole tossed salad milk and dessert on Toms lap I flew through the incessant rain The only action necessary to keep the three on course and altitude was to roll the trim tab each time the stewshyardess came forward to deliver a full tray or retrieve an empty when the passhysenger finished

Tom finished and asked if I wanted my meal He called the stewardess and a moment later the tray was placed on my lap Toms retrieved and she left for the buffet Tom took over the flight deshytail and I settled myself for a fine dinner I heard the door to the cabin close and

without an instants warning the aircraft dropped 250 feet It wasnt rough we just dropped Everything went up in the air My food tray ended upside down in my lap Somehow the neat slice of green pepper that graced the top of the salad was plastered to the windshield in front of me All it lacked was a set of cross hairs and it would have been a neat gun sight for a fighter

Just as suddenly as we had dropped we were in the clear air over Tampico Illinois We could see the Quad Cities almost 35 miles away from our position The air was that clear

The cabin call came on I hated to think of what the cabin must have looked like It was Hilbert The voice was very little You better call Moline and tell them we have to have about an hour to clean this plane up It s a mess and Im covered from head to foot with all the shrimp creole that was left on the trays

Moline was one of those can do stations They got the passengers off and we hit the cabin all of us together Wed been fortunate for with Buck helping the stewardess all the trays were back in the cold food carriers except Tom s and mine It was the food carrishyers that got Buck All those trays had come out of the carriers flipped over and deposited the whole shooting match on Buck He was a sight to behold

Buck said that as he looked forward he saw everyone floating above their seats A number of the people had pushed their heads into the headliner

far enough to leave a depression in the fabric The agents doing their job asked everyone if they were all right No problem just shaken a bit at the unshyusual experience

One of the passengers was the fashymous commentator Edward R Murshyrow Our station manager a real savvy fellow asked him how things were He replied that it really wasnt too bad but that some people would make quite a thing of it

One hour late we departed with the rest of the passengers destined for points west plus the new ones who joined the camp at Moline

Back at Midway the boss wanted to know why I didnt have the seat belt sign on Everyone else did when they went through there he said Well I told him if I hadn t found the problem and adshyvised dispatch hed have had others with the same experience Matter closed

As for Hilbert well be became a darn good engineer or plumber as we sometimes refer to them In time he got back into the right seat then the left ending an outstanding career flying the biggest of the DC-8s all over the western hemisphere Additionally with the restoration of the Swallow Uniteds first airplane he garnered millions in publicshyity for the company

As for his EAA and AntiqueClassic affiliation you are all aware of his conshytribution there If you want to hear him break into raucous laughter ask him how he likes shrimp creole

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Robert Cosman (Continuedrom page 2)

manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

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While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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manicured Magic Carpet for many years He like so many of us enjoyed taking youngsters for rides Bobs first ride was in Howards Bellanca Citabria He was always an eager passenger and in so being began rus fuU fledged initiashytion into the wonderful world of aviashytion Owning his own plane became Bobs dream

In order to earn enough money for the purchase he began working on the family farm first with pigs and later with cows He was five years old at the time (According to his mother Bob has always been goal oriented No kidshyding) Over the years he saved every penny while maintaining honor roll stashytus throughout his schooling After eight years Bob saved enough to conshysider purchasing a plane So he and his family journeyed to Oshkosh for the 1990 EAA Convention There Bob hoped to find his dream come true

As luck would have it he did just that The 120 was based at Oshkosh and had been completely restored in 1985lt was beautiful it was available and in a very short time it was his At thirteen years of age since Bob was still too young to fly solo a friend Jim White flew the plane down to Magic Carpet for him Bob has been taking lessons in it ever since and according to his flight instructor Rich Kloeppel he has been ready to solo for quite a while now Bob even worked out a thrifty arrangement in order to get flight inshystruction His instructor has two kids Bobs age so Bob offered to let Rich teach them to fly in the 120 for free flight instruction in return

Not bad for a fifteen year old Now all he has to do is wait until his sixshyteenth birthday April 20 1993 That will be a red letter day not just for Bob and his very supportive family but for all of us

Why Because for any of us who have ever breathed life into a derelict old airplane or given a bright-eyed child their first ride or soloed a promisshying young student we can aU share and enjoy this experience weather were able to be there in person or not This is the true hidden treasure there for all of us to enjoy Its the biggest brightshyest most valuable thing we can ever possess a big shiny bright piece of the future

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SUN N FUN G RAND CH AMshyPION

Every year at every fly-in we atshytend all of us from the editorial staff here at EAAHQ do our best to try and make sure that we have a photo of the most likely candidates for magshyazine coverage As you can imagine it can be tough to pick them out and sometimes circumstances (weather poor lighting etc) prevent us from getting the one picture we really need That was the case at Sun n Fun 92 when poor weather and his schedule prevented us from getting a good photo of John Karlovichs (ACl1323) Culver Cadet the winner of the Grand Champion Antique award Fortunately SPORT AVIATION edshyitor Jack Cox was present at the AIC Chapter 3 fly-in held at Burlington NC and was able to take these photos of John and his very original Culver Obtained as a project John set out to do a stock restoration right down to the instrument panel Powered with a Continental A-75 the airplane feashytures an original ground adjustable Freedman- Burnham prop A sensashytional performe r when it was built in 1940 the little Culver still gets second looks wherever it goes It would easshyily cruise at 115 mph and could do

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-- The Grand Champion Antique of EAA Sun n Fun 92 is this Culver Cadet LCA restored by John Karlovich This stock restoration of the Culver includes a Conshytinental A-75 eng ine and a blue and sil shyver color scheme The instrument panel is exactly as it was when the ai rplane was delivered from the Port Columbus Ohio factory in 1940

140 flat out in level flight This particshyular airplane a Culver Cadet LCA was made at the original Culver facshytory in Port Columbus Ohio and has a blue and silver finish as did all of the Culver LCAs built at the Port Columbus factory Jobn Karlovich is a retired Delta airlines oilot and he and his son currently ope e a private airshyport in Rome GA Cvngratulations to John on a fine restoration

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ANOTHER TWIST ON TUBING BENDING

Me Kelly Viets RR 2 Box 128

Lyndon KS 66451

While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

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them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

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tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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While trying to bend the 1 diameshyter tubing for the Travel Air stabilizshyers we tried the wheel type bender you showed in the April issue of VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE We used a long 2x4 and still couldnt do it right

I then thought if I just had some sort of hydraulic jack I might get the job done The only hydraulic jack I have is the auto floor jack I picked it up put it on my portable work bench and went to work

I had some 2x6 white oak from a packing crate The two verticals are lag screwed to the base with three 114

diameter lag screws each tapered at the top The strap in 118 thick 1 strap metal held with two 14 diameter lag screws These screws are brought down snug but not too tight as this will allow the strap to move to conform to the bending tube

The jack is blocked in place so it will not move during operation

The ram is a 2 piece of pecan or oak or some other hard wood turned to an 8 inch diameter and grooved out to match 112 the diameter of the pipe to be bent I believe you could use a smaller outshyside diameter of the ram

for tighter bends andor smaller tubshying I believe the pictures will tell the rest

As Paul has said Put your hands and mind to work Well this is only one of severa l we have come up with but we believe its one of the best Alshyways did want a pipe bender

Editors Note Snap-on Tools has advised us here at EAA that as of the end of July 1992 they will no longer be sponsoring Hints For Restorers John Fluke Mfg Co will continue to sponsor electrical awards We thank Snap-on Tools for their 4-year long sponsorship of the Hints feature in EAA publications - HGF

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Rules For the EAA AntiqueClassic 1992 Photo Contest 1 Eligibility Amateur photographers only who

are currently paid up members of the AntiqueClassic Division of EAA

An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

2 Dates The dates for the contest will be reshy

stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

5 Categories a Ground to Ground - This inshy

cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

d Judges Choice e Human Interest

6 Judging Entries will be judged on the basis of

general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

7 Entry Fee None

8 Restrictions Entries may not have been entered in

any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

9 Model Release A model release must be obtained

from recognizable person or persons in the photo only if and when requested by EAA AntiqueClassic personnel

10 Copyright No copyrighted photos will be

judged

11 Negatives Hold onto them Do not submit

them unless requested by the EAA An shytiqueClassic Division

12 Returns No entry will be returned and all enshy

tries will become the property of the EAA AntiqueClassic Division They will be added to the permanent EAA AntiqueClassic photo collection owned and maintained by the Division and will be used as the Division sees fit

However anytime the photo is used the photographer will be given credit for his or her work

13 Entry Form No form is needed but each entry

must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

photos in each category

15 Awards There will be a 1st prize a 2nd prize

and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

16 Deadline All entries must be in the Chairshy

mans hands by February 15 1993

Any additional inquires should be directed to

AlC Photo Contest Chairman Jack McCarthy AlC 2698 14132 Keeler Av Crestwood I L 60445-2320

An information exchange column with input from our readers

bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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An amateur photographer is one who does not make more than 10 percent of his living through the photography busishyness

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stricted to the 1992 EAA Oshkosh Conshyvention with identifiable photographs en route during or departure

3 Location Photos may be taken en route at or

during and departure of EAA Oshkosh 1992 Convention

4 Subject All Photos must have an Antique

Classic or Contemporary aircraft as the main subject and must have been made by the person entering the photograph They can be made with any type of color negative film and any type camera they may be processed and printed by anyshyone however color or black and white prints only please The prints may be any workable size up to and including 8 x 10 inches They may be spotted but may not be composites montage multishyple prints or artwork

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cludes photos of the main subject air shycraft with its wheels on the ground

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whether it is a static display taxiing on takeoff or landing roll There can be other aircraft in the photo that are not on the ground but the main subject must be

b Ground to Air - This will include shots of aircraft in flyby or in takeoff or landing configuration where there is a discernible amount of airspace between the wheels of the subject aircraft in flight

c Air to Air - Any photo taken on one or more Antique Classic or Conshytemporary aircraft in flight from anshyother aircraft

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general AntiqueClassic interest and the suitability of photos to the category in which it is entered Judges for the conshytest will be appointed by the EAA AnshytiqueClassic Division and all decisions of the judges are final

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any similar contest nor shall any closely simi lar picture situation be offered for publication elsewhere during the eligishybility period of this contest

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must have a label affixed to the back of each entry Print the following inforshymation name address and phone numshyber of the entrant and EAA Antique Classic membership number and cateshygory into which the photo should be placed All entries must be addressed to EAA AntiqueClassic Division Photo Contest - Attn Jack McCarthy 14132 South Keeler Crestwood IL 60445 (708371-1290)

14 Quantity Each entrant may submit up to five

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and a 3rd prize in each category and as many Honorable Mentions as the judges choose to make depending upon the total number of entries They winshyning photos will be published in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine at the discretion of the Editor Prizes will be given to winners at EAA Antique Classic Headquarters during the next calendar year convention Any contest winner unable to attend that convenshytion will have his or her prize mailed to them

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bv Buck Hilbert (EM 21 Ale 5)

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25

MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Wash her belly What is this crud This thought was running through my mind after my instructor made the stateshyment that the best way to get the feel of an airplane is to wash her belly

Bucket in one hand with a sponge and chamois in the other I made my way towards the Yellow Windwagon as he was prone to call the Cub grumbling to myself that was hing an airplane was the last thing I wanted to do I d much rather sit in the office and listen to the hangar talk I learned ea rly on that hangar talk although a litshytle overemphasized at times was the most intershyesting part of flying Lisshytening to the experiences of others was indeed a great way of assimilating their experiences - vicarishyously of course but nonetheless a learning exshyperience

Id hardly even begun when I realized that the exshyhaust stains and oil streaks would need something more powerful than the soapy water in the bucket

It wouldnt even touch it It just sort of gummed up and rolled around in the smearing goopy mess

Some solvent made that part of the job a little easier and after the so lvent a rinse with clear water followed by the soap and more water and that took care of that I started on the bird dirt on top of the fuseshylage and the wings Yes we had birds back in 1939 too and they had even more bugs to eat because there were fewer cars trucks and airplanes to smash them The water moved them but it still took lots of old-fashioned elbow grease to loosen The accumulated bug remains on the leadshying edges gave way as well and pretty soon I was down to the belly

Puzzle Do I lay on my back in the mud and water How do I get at this part of the job Aha Problem so lved I ducked back into the hangar and got one of the stacker frames we used when we put all the airplanes in the hangar at once Sort of a miniature modified sawhorse arshyrangement that the propeller rested on with the tail up in the air and the nose down

I scrubbed down the be lly a nd the stacker eve n made it easier to get at the lower side of the wings too so I gave them a lick and a promise as well

So much for the mechanics of the wash

job What did I learn Well there were some little cuts in the fabric down under the belly there was a ho le in the undershyside of the left elevator it looked like the tail wheel spring o n one side was a bit loose and I wonder where all that oil came from on the belly Maybe wed betshyter look Hmmm rocker box gasket and maybe the oil t a nk neck gasket too Maybe Id better take another look

I got out the dope ca n made some dolshylar size patches and took care of the little stone cuts under the belly and the elevashytor And then I pulled the cowl replaced the rocker box gasket that was the leaker and found that the oil pressure gauge line was the leaker at the engine fitting I took up one segment of the tail wheel steering chain All done I pinned the cowling back down polished the prop and the windshield and stood back to admire the job feeling an inner glow I hadnt felt beshyfore Part of me was with that airplane now and I dont mean the little bits of skin scratched off on the cotter keys eishyther

The Yellow Windwagon had never looked better And when the boss said Well just don t stand there Take it up and blow-dry it my day was made It and I flew so much better than I ever realshyized It was great

Retired United Captain Don Toeppen loaned us this photo taken at Milwaukees Mitchell Field in 1942 of a Cub on a stacking rack similar to the one Buck used to wash the Cub he was cleaning Do any of our readers still use this method to save on hangar space

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

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July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

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Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

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MYSTERY PLANE by George Hardie

This months Mystery Plane will be a challenge to the vintage experts among our readers Certain familiar lines may reveal the ancestry of this airplane The photo was submitted by Owen Billman of Mayfield New York Answers will be published in the October issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadline for that issue is August 20th

The April Mystery Plane has been tentatively identified as the Hawker Cygnet a British light airplane of the mid 1920s Charley Hayes of Park Forshyest IL and Lynn Towns Brooklyn MI both sent in answers to this mystery Charley also mentions the possibility that it could be an early Hurel-DuBois due to the high-aspect ratio wing Can any of our British or French members confirm this identification Lynn beshylieves the airplane in the photo is powshyered by an ABC engine of 30hp As mentioned by Lynn in his letter the Cygnet was entered in a 1924 airplane design contest sponsored by the British Air Ministry for an low cost two-place airplane to be used for a proposed Nashytional Flying Club The trials were held at Lympne and the two examples enshytered did quite well but did suffer from engine problems

One thing comes to mind when we receive answers to these obscure airshyplanes If you could when you send in an answer that you were ab le to find 26 JULY 1992

documented in a book give a reference of the book and page number in your response so that we can further docushyment the airplane You can never have too many confirmations of an obscure aircraft type

Dan Hagedorn of the Archives Divishysion National Air and Space Museum Washington DC submitted the photo in the hope that someone out there would come up with an identification He had exhausted all resources available to him and turned to EAA for help

This one was a real toughie but you readers came through in the end In the course of the past 11 years of preshy

senting our Mystery Plane column we received no answers to only eight columns the most recent in June 1988 All in all I think this is a pretty good record and speaks well for the expertise that is represented by our many readers Because of your dedicated response we now have records of many aircraft that otherwise would remain in obscurity

Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support espeshycially those who have sent in photos for the column Your participation has made this column possible Keep em coming and Ill do my best to keep the pot boiling

The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

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Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

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GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

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The following list of coming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorshyship involvement control or direction of any such event If you would like to have your aviashytion event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 53093shy3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date

July 3-5 - Gainesville GA - 24th Annual Cracker Fly-In EAA Chapter 61l Call 404532-7119 or 404967shy2144 for more information

July 8-12 - Arlington WA shyNorthwest EAA Fly-In Info 206-435shy5857

July 10-12 - Alliance OH -Taylorcraft Fly-In and annual employees reunion at Barber Airport (2Dl) Breakfast Fly-In on Sat amp Sun Banquet at the airport on Sat night Camping on Field many motels Conshytact Forrest A Barber 216823-0652

July 10-12 - Lompoc CA - 8th Anshynual West Coast Cub Fly-In Contact Bruce Fall 101 Oakhill Dr Lompoc CA 93436 Phone 805733-1914

July 10-12 - Minden NE - 14th Anshynual National Stinson Fly-In and meetshying Pioneer Village Airport Minden NE Call 303744-8048 for more inforshymation

July 10-12 Williamsport PA - 4th Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-In at Lycoming Airport Contact Dale Crisshywell 717368-3266 (days) or 717323shy7779 Also Dino Vlahakis 603448-3729 or Earl Hasselmark 203379-0901

July 11-12 - Emmetsburg IA shyFourth Annual Aeronca Fly-In sponsored by the Tail Dragger Club Camping Flight Breakfast on Sunday with free breakfast for pilot and copilot Serving 630am til 1230pm Contact Keith Harnden Box 285 Emmetsburg IA 50536

July 12 - Michigan City IN - EAA Chapter 966 Pancake Breakfast Michigan City Municipal Airport Call 219872-5248 for more information

July 25 Henning MN - 9th Annual Northwestern Aero Airshow and Cub Club Convention Rain date July 26 Pancake Breakfast free to PIC of Antishyque or Classic aircraft Contests (9am required briefing) Awards Airshow

July 25-26 - New Berlin IL - Flying S Farm Midwest gathering of Taylorcrafts Contact AI and Mary Smith 217478-267l

July 25-26 - Bemidji MN - Bemidshyji-Beltrami County Airshow Antiques and Classics welcome Fish fry Hangar parties Sunday breakfast and aerial demonstrations Contact LeRoy Johnson 1-800458-2223 or 218751 shy5423

July 26-31 - Marion IA - 24th Anshynual International Cessna 170 Associashytion Convention Contact Lee Reedy 319322-0665

July 28-August 6 - Valparaiso IN shyPorter County Municipal Airport EAA Chapter 104 is sponsoring aTravelers Fuel and Food Stop Contact Oliver Lacy ant 219843-5481 (evenings)

July 31-Aug 6 - Oshkosh WI - 40th Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426-4800

August 1 - Oshkosh WI - Blackshyhawk Tech AampP and Avionics Reunion at EAA Oshkosh On the east side at Novaks hangar For reservations conshytact Mary Mills 613 Wisconsin Av Beloit WI 5351l 608364-474l

August 1-2 - Shiocton WI - Alillual Fly-In Food served daily Free campshying to EAA members Contact Joyce Baggot414986-3547

August 10-14 - Fond Du Lac WIshy23rd Annual International Aerobatic Club Championships Five categories of competition - Basic through Unshylimited Fond du Lac Cup Sunday August 9th Contact Louis 1 Drew Contest Director 414921-6000

August 16 - Brookfield WI - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 11 OIdshyfashioned Ice Cream Social Noon until 5 pm Vintage and amateurshybuilt aircraft on display as well as a display of radio-controlled model planes Contact George Meade AC Chapter 11 Pres 414962-2428

August 22-23 - Bloomington IL shyEighth Annual Air Show sponsored by the Prairie Aviation Museum Contact PO Box 856 Bloomington 1161702 or phone 309-663-7632

August 28-30 - Sussex NJ - 20th

Anniversary Sussex Airshow 92 Gates open at 8am show at 130pm Call 201702-9719 for more informashytion

August 30 - Tomah WI - EAA Chapter 935 4th AIU1Ual Fly-In Breakshyfast at Boyer Field Static Displays Flea Market 7am until Call 608372shy3125 for more information

September 5-6 PIOSSel- W A - 9th Annual EAA 391 Fly-In Call Thompson Aircraft 1-509-786-1034 for more info

Septembe- 5-7 Lake Guntersville AL - Aerodrome 92 Worlds largest WW I Aviation Fly-In Convention Contact Ryder Internashytional Corp 205586-1580

September 18-20 Jacksonville IL - 8th Annual Stinson Reunion Fly-outs Contests Camping on field Banquet with guest speaker Phil Richardson (winner of the World Vintage Air Rally) on Sat night (reservations required) Contact Loran F Nordgren 815469shy9100 or write 4 W Nebraska Frankfort IL 60423

September 19-20 - Rock Falls IL shy6th Annual North Central EAA OldshyFashioned Fly-In Workshops forums exh ibits swap meet and awards Pancake breakfast on Sunday Contact Gregg Erikson 708513-0642 or Dave Christianson 815625-6556

September 24-26 Bartlesville OK - 35th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Contact Charles W Harris 918742shy7311 or write PO Box 904038 Tulsa OK 74105

Septembel- 25-26 Porterville CA shyWestern Waco Association 4th Annual Reunion Largest gathering of Waco aircraft west of the Mississippi Contact WWA at 209962-6121 or write WWA PO Box 706 Groveland CA 9532l

October 16-18 Hampton GA shyWings and Wheels Motor Fair Fly-In and Airshow Auto show and flea market Henry County Airport (Bear Creek) Sponsored by Atlanta Motor Speedway 404946-3910

October 24-25 Hickol-y NC - 7th Annual EAA Chapter 731 Fly-In Held in conjunction with the Catawba Counshyty Sesquicentennial Committee Airshyshow Banquet Sat night static displays and awards for all classes of aircraft Contact Doug Teague 704754-3598 (days) or evenings Norman Rainwater 704328-5807

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Gale R Aguilar Gilroy CA Arthur Anderson Waunakee WI Jack Anthony Chillicothe OH Ralph Appelbaum New York NY J D Ashmun Londonderry NH Robert G Baehr Bella Vista AR Gary Baglien Minneapolis MN Ralph A Ball Bellflower CA William J Bass Washington DC Albert J Beach DaytonOH Gerald T Bean Springfield V A Janet Bennett Coldwater MI Richard G Bernard

Kirkland W A Daniel Bickerstaff Kannapolis NC Kerry Brasher Scotts Hill TN James M Brewster Shawnee KS Terry L Brokaw Three Rivers MI Ernest C Bryant

Virginia Beach VA John E Burdo Greensboro NC Keith Burns

Lakefield Ontario Canada Richard A Caldwell Norwell MA

(Sponsor William Richardson) Ronald R Calkins

Grand Prairie TX Robert H Campbell Ellisville MO William G Carey

Throckmorton TX Robert Carr Jr Redding CA Bruce H Carter Tampa FL Thurman D Carver Lebanon IL Henry G Cofield Mc Donald TN Stephen R Coker Berlin NJ Thomas E Collinge

Hornsby Heights Australia Brian Costello Arlington W A Gerard Crepin Boulogne France David P Dalrymple Ocala FL Gordon S Daniel Rotan TX Edward C Dillon Poway CA Warren D Dirks Berthoud CO Dana K Drake Arlington TX Dick E Drake Eagle ID George R Dray Novato CA Ensign Martha Dunne

Annapolis MD Robert T Eisler

Regina Saskatchewan Canada Kenneth D Elder MedwayOH

Kornelis A Eleveld Calgary Alberta Canada

Exley Mobile Services Inc Rincon GA

Fal Falconi Abilene TX Harry L Fenton Rockton IL Don A Filippone Conway SC Guy A Fortier Incline Village NV Stephen K Freeman

Camarillo CA Susanna H French Bedford NY Bent Frisendahl Ledoje Denmark Gene W Frohbieter Houston TX Leland Fuerst Lees Summit MO Bruno J Gacek

Western Springs IL Al Gauthier Northglenn CO Andrew Gaymer

Hillman Rockingham Australia Harry G Geyer Pittsburgh PA Jack Graham Vero Beach FL W F Gregory Dundee IL Norman Griswold

Pine Valley NY Steven Gunderson Ishpeming MI John J Haggerty Jr

Skaneateles NY James D Haley Philadelphia PA VIs Hansen Haverdal Sweden Kenneth H Hatter

Virginia Beach VA Roger Haynes Fremont OH Philip M Hazen Rochester NY Richard J Hinshaw Sedalia MO Harold J Hitchcock

Burnsville MN Edward T Hoit Federal Way WA Arnold R Holt

California City CA E House Tan Cheung Hong Kong Wayne E Hughes Utica KY James G Hunley Eustis FL Blaine Hunsaker

Brigham City UT Donald Hyra Milwaukee WI Thomas Ingelsson

Langsele Sweden EInkley Houston TX Richard Jackson San Angelo TX Jess Ben Johnson Covington GA William Johnson Charleston TN

John Peter Kellett Fonthill Ontario Canada

Philip E Kelly Coldwater MI Russ Kilmer Sacramento CA Richard Kirby Stafford V A Bernard Cecil Kitchell

Echuca Victoria Australia Thomas D Kocher

East Kingston NH John D Koons Oakland ME Richard Kralcik Athens WI Kenneth I Lamb Hitchcock TX John Ridings Lee Dallas TX Ty J Leese Northumberland PA Hank Likes Mechanicsburg P A Kevin F Limon

Cheltenham Victoria Australia Curt C Lindauer Jr Belleville IL Robert J Lines Enid OK Moody Allen Long Apex NC Dominique Lorentz Nancy France Horace N Lowe Amarillo TX Robert P Mackey Oshkosh WI Charles Richard Mann

Woodbridge V A Graeme D McMillan

Invercargill New Zealand Gregor McNicol Hastings Hawkes Bay New Zealand Scott V Miller Niceville FL John T Monnett Oshkosh WI William B Moss Jr

Anchorage AK Katrina Marie Mumaw

Lancaster CA Sterling Muth Golden CO Alan A Netz Cedar Crest NM James R Newhouse

Maple Park IL Wendy Nichols Kailua HI Paul W Nicolai Hudson WI Ronald Niemann

Sheboygan Falls WI Robert E Niles Riverside CA William J Oparowski

North Hampton NH James M Owens Onalaska WI Delton T Perry Lawrenceburg TN Ralph H Peterson Dothan AL J B Phillips Stanwood WA

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Wayne W Polak Indianapolis IN James H Thornhill Houston TX Tommy Potts Montgomery AL Edward Toleikis Tuscon AZ Joseph S Ptaszek Wauwatosa WI David L Torrey Ransomville NY Felix Quast Winsted MN Robert Trail Winsted CT Arthur L Raines Cleburne TX Arthur Tregenza Jr Salinas CA Robert R Reid Jr Thomas N Tucker

Wichita Falls TX Ft Washington MD Barry Ross Bill Turnbow Washington OK

Floradale Capella Australia William T Utess Philip L Ross Hobbs NM Three Mile Bay NY Jon Roy Augusta NJ John E Vander Horck David Schreiner San Antionio TX Valencia CA Johann Donald Sebastiao Paceon D Vetaly Corvallis OR

Caixa Brazil Karl A Vick ElkoMN Peter Seto Portland OR William A Walden Robert W Shea Wayzata MN Blue Ridge GA Donald H Siewert Lake City MN Keith Walker John Sklar Louisville KY Hadfield Derbyshire ENGLAND Clay Smith Naperville IL Alan Walton Don Smith Grand Prairie TX March Cambs GREAT BRITAIN Jack F Smith Owosso MI Terry A Ward Redmond WA Richard Norman Smith Gregory B Warner

Wilkesboro NC Londonderry NH Paul K Smoker Intercourse PA J K Watson Houston TX Michael J Snyder Sebastian FL Tom Weller Hollywood FL J Thomas Solano Jacksonville FL Jerry W Wharton Wise V A Philip A Spade Gwinn MI Robert Whitted Cicero IN Robert Spink Daytona Beach FL B Scott White Castlewood V A Winston C Stansell Atkins TN Lawrence L Wilson Boyd D Stewart Mt Jackson V A

Cache Bay Ont CANADA Bruce D Wilt Berthoud CO Thomas J Stolz West Lafayette IN Robert M Wiseman HarrisonOH R Edward Strumski Daniel P Woodward RivertonIL

Tallahassee FL John C Worth Willingboro NJ George M Suta Exeter CA Dr David S Wyer Muleshoe TX John T Svatek Alexandria VA Frank W Young Lexington SC Christopher E Swain Richard Zacour Ford City PA

Indianapolis IN H Evan Zeiger Birmingham AL J Thiers Brasslmaat Belgium Kenneth F Zino Stephen A Thompson Pleasant Ridge MI

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EAA Member - $2000 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership card Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number

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Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $3000 per year which includes a subscription to Warbirds Warshybird members are required to be members of EAA

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EAA membership and EAA EXshyPERIMENTER magazine is available for $2800 per year (Sport Aviation not inshycluded) Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER for $1800 per year

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Credit Cards preferred When paying by check please submit a check drawn on a United States bank payable in United States dollars

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BENEFITS INCLUDE Call Today bull Lower LJability amp Hull Premiums bull Fleet Discounts bull No Age Penalty 800-727-3823 bull No Hand Propping Exclusions bull No Component Parts Endorsements NotAnEAA bull A+ Company with In-House Claims ~~~~ AntiqueClassic Member

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ANTIQUE 1-800-322-2412bull Option to Repair Your Own Aircraft CLASSIC 30 JULY 1992 APPROVED

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets

bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

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259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115 ~

TURBO ALTERNATOR TYPE BPE -14

UPGRADE YOUR NON-ELECTRIC PLANE FOR TODAYS AIRSPACE SAFETY NEEDS

Increase safety by installing a BPE-14 Turbo Alternator to power a radio strobe navlights transponder ect

Fully qualified with STCs for many common classics

Call or write us and well send you the details on the BPE-14 Turbo

Llt-_________J Alternator The

hi-tech design wind generator

BASIC AIRCRAFT PRODUcrS INC 4474 Hickory Drive Evans GA 30809

(706 863-4474

pO box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

MEMBER

TANI( PAINTlNb AND REPAIRING

SANOIlASTING TANK liNUS AND COATINGS

PREVENTIVE TANK MAINTENANCE INSPECIION SUVICE

lADDER SAfHY EOUIPMENT

RESERVOIR liNERS AND ROOfS

DISMANTlING AND MOVING TANkS

NEW USED AND RECONDITIONED TANKS

POLY-FIBER COVERING

THE BEST GETS BETTER WITH NEW HIGH STRENGTH LOW ELONGATION FABRIC STYLES

OUTSTANDING QUALITIES Long Life Flexible Coatings and Finishes Developed Espeshycially for Aircraft Fabric bull Will Not Support Combustion bull Proven Durability on Thousands of Aircraft World Wide Since 1965 Easy Repairability Lightest Coating System Approved Under an FAA STC and a PMA bull Most Economical Covering Materials Considering Many Years of Trouble Free Service FAA STC Approved for Over 690 Aircraft Models

VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE FABRIC COVERING WITH RAY STITS EDUCATIONAL bull INSTRUCTIVE TECHNICAL Sponsored by EAA Aviation Foundation See This Tape First and Avoid Expensive Misshytakes VHS or Seta $3995 Prepaid Also Direct from EAA (1 -800-843-3612) and Poly-Fiber Distributors

WRITE PHONE OR FAX FOR FREE New Fifth Edition PolyshyFiber Manual With Updated Information New Fabric Samples With Test Reports Catalog and Distributor List

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PO Box 3084-V Riverside CA 92519-3084 ~=Ii Phone (714) 684-4280 Fax (714) 684-0518

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 01 Registered Civil and

Military Aircralt O~R $1ggs

PAGES INCLTAXampSHPG

1992-93LimitedEdition Lists over 18000 owners of pre-1946 aircraft by adshydresscity and state crossshyindexedbyN numbermake

PGSIZE 85 x model and series Bonus Lists all operational aircraft by year built make model and series Everything you need to buy sell or evaluate aircraft

MASTERCHARGE ampVISA ACCEPTED

1-800-2n-8960~ PROFESSIONAL PRESS Po Box 4371middot Chapel Hill NC 27515-4371

Call for Subscribe your to

FREE copy JlEROPLANEof our 1992 1fws

catalog

CoIl1-800-831-2949 To order ACCESSORIES

-Windshields - Rlters B8DEi~~~f~~LS -Shock Cords -Tires -Tailwheels - Spark Plugs AIRFRAME PARTS bull Tubes bull Instruments - Spruce - Rr - Plywood -Wheel Brakes amp Axles - Adhesives bull Nails -Propellers -Tail Draggers - steel Sheet amp Tubing

-Master Cylinders Aluminum Sheet ampTubing

COVERING SYSTEMS

i - stits - Randolph -Ceconite -Air-Tech Dopes Fabrics Tapes

Primers amp Accessories

FABRIC ENVELOPES -stits - PI 03 and HD2X2 -Ceconite -1 01 and 102

DROP-IN INTERIOR KITS -Antique amp ClassiC Aircraft

INTERIOR ITEMS ~ -Cushion Sets - Headliners -Seat -Carpeting Slings -Canopy ampWindshield Covers -Baggage Compartments

AN HARDWARE - Bolts Q==shy - Ri vets - Nuts -Washers - Pins - Rttings -Screws - Fasteners ~

Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet 35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to

The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot2591

AIRCRAFT For Sale - Stearman A75 Nl beauti ful restoration on a 1030 n hours airframe and 100 hours since rebuilt 220 hp Continental W670GN engine 100 SMOH shielded ignition harness Hamilton Standard aluminum propeller cover with Ceconite and finished with polyurethane paint All manuals (flight aerobatics erection and maintenance) US registration N34KS fresh annual January 51992 Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FL Call Andy Montidoro 305739middot 3575 FAX305739middot9514 (7middot1)

MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe---Full color 130 pages $1795 Flymiddot About PO Box 51144 Centon TX 76206 (ufn)

SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMAmiddotd 4130 chromemiddot moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNshyTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5Rl 48N

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GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

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You can insure your airplane with

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for your money That company is

AVEMCO

Unlike others in the business

weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

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year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

Dick Creswell BuilderPilot RV-4

than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

A+ Superior by AM Best Comshy

pany AM Best rates an insurance

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tual obligations

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MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

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GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

AVEMCOs been really great about insuring lDy RV-4 I appreciate their no-hassle approach to aviation insurance ~~

You can insure your airplane with

any of severa l compan ies Before you

make your choice think about what

you want from your insurer If youre

like most pi lots you want service and

value Choose the company that

gives you the best service and value

for your money That company is

AVEMCO

Unlike others in the business

weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

customers have always known that

they can count on us to be there

year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

Dick Creswell BuilderPilot RV-4

than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

A+ Superior by AM Best Comshy

pany AM Best rates an insurance

company on its relative financial

strength and ability to meet contracshy

tual obligations

Call today for an immediate noshy

obligation quote

VEMCOreg INSURANCE COMPANY

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Continued from Page 26

Wayne W Polak Indianapolis IN James H Thornhill Houston TX Tommy Potts Montgomery AL Edward Toleikis Tuscon AZ Joseph S Ptaszek Wauwatosa WI David L Torrey Ransomville NY Felix Quast Winsted MN Robert Trail Winsted CT Arthur L Raines Cleburne TX Arthur Tregenza Jr Salinas CA Robert R Reid Jr Thomas N Tucker

Wichita Falls TX Ft Washington MD Barry Ross Bill Turnbow Washington OK

Floradale Capella Australia William T Utess Philip L Ross Hobbs NM Three Mile Bay NY Jon Roy Augusta NJ John E Vander Horck David Schreiner San Antionio TX Valencia CA Johann Donald Sebastiao Paceon D Vetaly Corvallis OR

Caixa Brazil Karl A Vick ElkoMN Peter Seto Portland OR William A Walden Robert W Shea Wayzata MN Blue Ridge GA Donald H Siewert Lake City MN Keith Walker John Sklar Louisville KY Hadfield Derbyshire ENGLAND Clay Smith Naperville IL Alan Walton Don Smith Grand Prairie TX March Cambs GREAT BRITAIN Jack F Smith Owosso MI Terry A Ward Redmond WA Richard Norman Smith Gregory B Warner

Wilkesboro NC Londonderry NH Paul K Smoker Intercourse PA J K Watson Houston TX Michael J Snyder Sebastian FL Tom Weller Hollywood FL J Thomas Solano Jacksonville FL Jerry W Wharton Wise V A Philip A Spade Gwinn MI Robert Whitted Cicero IN Robert Spink Daytona Beach FL B Scott White Castlewood V A Winston C Stansell Atkins TN Lawrence L Wilson Boyd D Stewart Mt Jackson V A

Cache Bay Ont CANADA Bruce D Wilt Berthoud CO Thomas J Stolz West Lafayette IN Robert M Wiseman HarrisonOH R Edward Strumski Daniel P Woodward RivertonIL

Tallahassee FL John C Worth Willingboro NJ George M Suta Exeter CA Dr David S Wyer Muleshoe TX John T Svatek Alexandria VA Frank W Young Lexington SC Christopher E Swain Richard Zacour Ford City PA

Indianapolis IN H Evan Zeiger Birmingham AL J Thiers Brasslmaat Belgium Kenneth F Zino Stephen A Thompson Pleasant Ridge MI

Fayetteville GA

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

EAA

Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $3500 for one year including 12 issues of Sport A viashytion Junior Membership (under 1 9 years of age) is available at $2000 annually Family membership is available for an additional $1000 annually All major credit cards accepted for membership (FAX (414) 426-4873

ANTIQUECLASSIC

EAA Member - $2000 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership card Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number

Non-EAA Member - $3000 Includes one year membership in the EAA AntiqueshyClassic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation QQI included

lAC

Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $3000 annually which includes 12 issues of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are reshyquired to be members of EAA

WARBIRDS

Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $3000 per year which includes a subscription to Warbirds Warshybird members are required to be members of EAA

EAA EXPERIMENTER

EAA membership and EAA EXshyPERIMENTER magazine is available for $2800 per year (Sport Aviation not inshycluded) Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER for $1800 per year

FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS

Credit Cards preferred When paying by check please submit a check drawn on a United States bank payable in United States dollars

Make checks payable to EAA or the division in which membership is desired Address all letters to EAA or the particular division at the following address

EAA A VIA TlON CENTER PO_ BOX 3086

OSHKOSH WI 54903-3086 PHONE (414) 426-4800

FAX (414) 426-4828 OFFICE HOURS

815-500 MON-FRI 1-800-322-2412

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

INC Aviation Underwriting Agency

Po Box 35289 bull Greensboro NC 27425

BeCOllle A Metnber Of The BAA AntiqueClassic Insurance Progralll

BENEFITS INCLUDE Call Today bull Lower LJability amp Hull Premiums bull Fleet Discounts bull No Age Penalty 800-727-3823 bull No Hand Propping Exclusions bull No Component Parts Endorsements NotAnEAA bull A+ Company with In-House Claims ~~~~ AntiqueClassic Member

= ~~ bull Service -Ibull_J1~ Call To JOIn

ANTIQUE 1-800-322-2412bull Option to Repair Your Own Aircraft CLASSIC 30 JULY 1992 APPROVED

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets

bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

r--- i Qirt~RODUCTS INC

259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115 ~

TURBO ALTERNATOR TYPE BPE -14

UPGRADE YOUR NON-ELECTRIC PLANE FOR TODAYS AIRSPACE SAFETY NEEDS

Increase safety by installing a BPE-14 Turbo Alternator to power a radio strobe navlights transponder ect

Fully qualified with STCs for many common classics

Call or write us and well send you the details on the BPE-14 Turbo

Llt-_________J Alternator The

hi-tech design wind generator

BASIC AIRCRAFT PRODUcrS INC 4474 Hickory Drive Evans GA 30809

(706 863-4474

pO box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

MEMBER

TANI( PAINTlNb AND REPAIRING

SANOIlASTING TANK liNUS AND COATINGS

PREVENTIVE TANK MAINTENANCE INSPECIION SUVICE

lADDER SAfHY EOUIPMENT

RESERVOIR liNERS AND ROOfS

DISMANTlING AND MOVING TANkS

NEW USED AND RECONDITIONED TANKS

POLY-FIBER COVERING

THE BEST GETS BETTER WITH NEW HIGH STRENGTH LOW ELONGATION FABRIC STYLES

OUTSTANDING QUALITIES Long Life Flexible Coatings and Finishes Developed Espeshycially for Aircraft Fabric bull Will Not Support Combustion bull Proven Durability on Thousands of Aircraft World Wide Since 1965 Easy Repairability Lightest Coating System Approved Under an FAA STC and a PMA bull Most Economical Covering Materials Considering Many Years of Trouble Free Service FAA STC Approved for Over 690 Aircraft Models

VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE FABRIC COVERING WITH RAY STITS EDUCATIONAL bull INSTRUCTIVE TECHNICAL Sponsored by EAA Aviation Foundation See This Tape First and Avoid Expensive Misshytakes VHS or Seta $3995 Prepaid Also Direct from EAA (1 -800-843-3612) and Poly-Fiber Distributors

WRITE PHONE OR FAX FOR FREE New Fifth Edition PolyshyFiber Manual With Updated Information New Fabric Samples With Test Reports Catalog and Distributor List

STITS POLYmiddotFIBER AIRCRAFT COATINGS

PO Box 3084-V Riverside CA 92519-3084 ~=Ii Phone (714) 684-4280 Fax (714) 684-0518

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 01 Registered Civil and

Military Aircralt O~R $1ggs

PAGES INCLTAXampSHPG

1992-93LimitedEdition Lists over 18000 owners of pre-1946 aircraft by adshydresscity and state crossshyindexedbyN numbermake

PGSIZE 85 x model and series Bonus Lists all operational aircraft by year built make model and series Everything you need to buy sell or evaluate aircraft

MASTERCHARGE ampVISA ACCEPTED

1-800-2n-8960~ PROFESSIONAL PRESS Po Box 4371middot Chapel Hill NC 27515-4371

Call for Subscribe your to

FREE copy JlEROPLANEof our 1992 1fws

catalog

CoIl1-800-831-2949 To order ACCESSORIES

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FABRIC ENVELOPES -stits - PI 03 and HD2X2 -Ceconite -1 01 and 102

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The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot2591

AIRCRAFT For Sale - Stearman A75 Nl beauti ful restoration on a 1030 n hours airframe and 100 hours since rebuilt 220 hp Continental W670GN engine 100 SMOH shielded ignition harness Hamilton Standard aluminum propeller cover with Ceconite and finished with polyurethane paint All manuals (flight aerobatics erection and maintenance) US registration N34KS fresh annual January 51992 Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FL Call Andy Montidoro 305739middot 3575 FAX305739middot9514 (7middot1)

MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe---Full color 130 pages $1795 Flymiddot About PO Box 51144 Centon TX 76206 (ufn)

SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMAmiddotd 4130 chromemiddot moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNshyTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5Rl 48N

OX-S Parts and Service - Free ads to subscribers Subscription $1800 yearly PO Box 134 Troy OH 45373 (7-6)

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINES-Out-of-print literature history restoration manuals etc Unique list of 2000+ scarce items $300 JOHN ROBY 3703V Nassau San Diego CA 9211 5 (Established 1960) (c-l092)

Parachutes - Toll Free 1-800-526-2822 New amp Used Parachutes We take trade-ins 5middotyear repair or replacement warranty many styles in stock Parachute Associates Inc 69 Main Street Suite A Vincentown NJ 08088 609859middot3397 (c792)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs - Newand reconditioned New middot$1475 reconditioned $575 to $975 New wire ends $475 Eagle Air 2920 Emerald Drive Jonesboro GA 30236 404478-2310 (cmiddotl092)

GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

AVEMCOs been really great about insuring lDy RV-4 I appreciate their no-hassle approach to aviation insurance ~~

You can insure your airplane with

any of severa l compan ies Before you

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like most pi lots you want service and

value Choose the company that

gives you the best service and value

for your money That company is

AVEMCO

Unlike others in the business

weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

customers have always known that

they can count on us to be there

year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

Dick Creswell BuilderPilot RV-4

than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

A+ Superior by AM Best Comshy

pany AM Best rates an insurance

company on its relative financial

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259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115 ~

TURBO ALTERNATOR TYPE BPE -14

UPGRADE YOUR NON-ELECTRIC PLANE FOR TODAYS AIRSPACE SAFETY NEEDS

Increase safety by installing a BPE-14 Turbo Alternator to power a radio strobe navlights transponder ect

Fully qualified with STCs for many common classics

Call or write us and well send you the details on the BPE-14 Turbo

Llt-_________J Alternator The

hi-tech design wind generator

BASIC AIRCRAFT PRODUcrS INC 4474 Hickory Drive Evans GA 30809

(706 863-4474

pO box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

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OUTSTANDING QUALITIES Long Life Flexible Coatings and Finishes Developed Espeshycially for Aircraft Fabric bull Will Not Support Combustion bull Proven Durability on Thousands of Aircraft World Wide Since 1965 Easy Repairability Lightest Coating System Approved Under an FAA STC and a PMA bull Most Economical Covering Materials Considering Many Years of Trouble Free Service FAA STC Approved for Over 690 Aircraft Models

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 01 Registered Civil and

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1992-93LimitedEdition Lists over 18000 owners of pre-1946 aircraft by adshydresscity and state crossshyindexedbyN numbermake

PGSIZE 85 x model and series Bonus Lists all operational aircraft by year built make model and series Everything you need to buy sell or evaluate aircraft

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CoIl1-800-831-2949 To order ACCESSORIES

-Windshields - Rlters B8DEi~~~f~~LS -Shock Cords -Tires -Tailwheels - Spark Plugs AIRFRAME PARTS bull Tubes bull Instruments - Spruce - Rr - Plywood -Wheel Brakes amp Axles - Adhesives bull Nails -Propellers -Tail Draggers - steel Sheet amp Tubing

-Master Cylinders Aluminum Sheet ampTubing

COVERING SYSTEMS

i - stits - Randolph -Ceconite -Air-Tech Dopes Fabrics Tapes

Primers amp Accessories

FABRIC ENVELOPES -stits - PI 03 and HD2X2 -Ceconite -1 01 and 102

DROP-IN INTERIOR KITS -Antique amp ClassiC Aircraft

INTERIOR ITEMS ~ -Cushion Sets - Headliners -Seat -Carpeting Slings -Canopy ampWindshield Covers -Baggage Compartments

AN HARDWARE - Bolts Q==shy - Ri vets - Nuts -Washers - Pins - Rttings -Screws - Fasteners ~

Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet 35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to

The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot2591

AIRCRAFT For Sale - Stearman A75 Nl beauti ful restoration on a 1030 n hours airframe and 100 hours since rebuilt 220 hp Continental W670GN engine 100 SMOH shielded ignition harness Hamilton Standard aluminum propeller cover with Ceconite and finished with polyurethane paint All manuals (flight aerobatics erection and maintenance) US registration N34KS fresh annual January 51992 Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FL Call Andy Montidoro 305739middot 3575 FAX305739middot9514 (7middot1)

MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe---Full color 130 pages $1795 Flymiddot About PO Box 51144 Centon TX 76206 (ufn)

SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMAmiddotd 4130 chromemiddot moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNshyTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5Rl 48N

OX-S Parts and Service - Free ads to subscribers Subscription $1800 yearly PO Box 134 Troy OH 45373 (7-6)

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINES-Out-of-print literature history restoration manuals etc Unique list of 2000+ scarce items $300 JOHN ROBY 3703V Nassau San Diego CA 9211 5 (Established 1960) (c-l092)

Parachutes - Toll Free 1-800-526-2822 New amp Used Parachutes We take trade-ins 5middotyear repair or replacement warranty many styles in stock Parachute Associates Inc 69 Main Street Suite A Vincentown NJ 08088 609859middot3397 (c792)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs - Newand reconditioned New middot$1475 reconditioned $575 to $975 New wire ends $475 Eagle Air 2920 Emerald Drive Jonesboro GA 30236 404478-2310 (cmiddotl092)

GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

AVEMCOs been really great about insuring lDy RV-4 I appreciate their no-hassle approach to aviation insurance ~~

You can insure your airplane with

any of severa l compan ies Before you

make your choice think about what

you want from your insurer If youre

like most pi lots you want service and

value Choose the company that

gives you the best service and value

for your money That company is

AVEMCO

Unlike others in the business

weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

customers have always known that

they can count on us to be there

year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

Dick Creswell BuilderPilot RV-4

than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

A+ Superior by AM Best Comshy

pany AM Best rates an insurance

company on its relative financial

strength and ability to meet contracshy

tual obligations

Call today for an immediate noshy

obligation quote

VEMCOreg INSURANCE COMPANY

1-800-638-8440 1-800-263-1631 By Aviation People For Aviation People

1N OME 06C Wli iE 117 OF LQCL CliIZEN

I-RIIIS WEshyiUR-IEI7 l-liO

Nil-tUS PiRO ~ shy SltElt -shylgtrll

EO- 3Igt6E 0IERiIN6 UN)tR MI1R1 P IRpoundcTION Iigt OWN vIECNIC

OBSERVER R9IO-MEN ltipoundN0611II-poundR7 NI7 l-lipoundlU6ENCE OFFICpoundRlt-shy

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets

bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

r--- i Qirt~RODUCTS INC

259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115 ~

TURBO ALTERNATOR TYPE BPE -14

UPGRADE YOUR NON-ELECTRIC PLANE FOR TODAYS AIRSPACE SAFETY NEEDS

Increase safety by installing a BPE-14 Turbo Alternator to power a radio strobe navlights transponder ect

Fully qualified with STCs for many common classics

Call or write us and well send you the details on the BPE-14 Turbo

Llt-_________J Alternator The

hi-tech design wind generator

BASIC AIRCRAFT PRODUcrS INC 4474 Hickory Drive Evans GA 30809

(706 863-4474

pO box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

MEMBER

TANI( PAINTlNb AND REPAIRING

SANOIlASTING TANK liNUS AND COATINGS

PREVENTIVE TANK MAINTENANCE INSPECIION SUVICE

lADDER SAfHY EOUIPMENT

RESERVOIR liNERS AND ROOfS

DISMANTlING AND MOVING TANkS

NEW USED AND RECONDITIONED TANKS

POLY-FIBER COVERING

THE BEST GETS BETTER WITH NEW HIGH STRENGTH LOW ELONGATION FABRIC STYLES

OUTSTANDING QUALITIES Long Life Flexible Coatings and Finishes Developed Espeshycially for Aircraft Fabric bull Will Not Support Combustion bull Proven Durability on Thousands of Aircraft World Wide Since 1965 Easy Repairability Lightest Coating System Approved Under an FAA STC and a PMA bull Most Economical Covering Materials Considering Many Years of Trouble Free Service FAA STC Approved for Over 690 Aircraft Models

VIDEO TAPE AVAILABLE FABRIC COVERING WITH RAY STITS EDUCATIONAL bull INSTRUCTIVE TECHNICAL Sponsored by EAA Aviation Foundation See This Tape First and Avoid Expensive Misshytakes VHS or Seta $3995 Prepaid Also Direct from EAA (1 -800-843-3612) and Poly-Fiber Distributors

WRITE PHONE OR FAX FOR FREE New Fifth Edition PolyshyFiber Manual With Updated Information New Fabric Samples With Test Reports Catalog and Distributor List

STITS POLYmiddotFIBER AIRCRAFT COATINGS

PO Box 3084-V Riverside CA 92519-3084 ~=Ii Phone (714) 684-4280 Fax (714) 684-0518

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 01 Registered Civil and

Military Aircralt O~R $1ggs

PAGES INCLTAXampSHPG

1992-93LimitedEdition Lists over 18000 owners of pre-1946 aircraft by adshydresscity and state crossshyindexedbyN numbermake

PGSIZE 85 x model and series Bonus Lists all operational aircraft by year built make model and series Everything you need to buy sell or evaluate aircraft

MASTERCHARGE ampVISA ACCEPTED

1-800-2n-8960~ PROFESSIONAL PRESS Po Box 4371middot Chapel Hill NC 27515-4371

Call for Subscribe your to

FREE copy JlEROPLANEof our 1992 1fws

catalog

CoIl1-800-831-2949 To order ACCESSORIES

-Windshields - Rlters B8DEi~~~f~~LS -Shock Cords -Tires -Tailwheels - Spark Plugs AIRFRAME PARTS bull Tubes bull Instruments - Spruce - Rr - Plywood -Wheel Brakes amp Axles - Adhesives bull Nails -Propellers -Tail Draggers - steel Sheet amp Tubing

-Master Cylinders Aluminum Sheet ampTubing

COVERING SYSTEMS

i - stits - Randolph -Ceconite -Air-Tech Dopes Fabrics Tapes

Primers amp Accessories

FABRIC ENVELOPES -stits - PI 03 and HD2X2 -Ceconite -1 01 and 102

DROP-IN INTERIOR KITS -Antique amp ClassiC Aircraft

INTERIOR ITEMS ~ -Cushion Sets - Headliners -Seat -Carpeting Slings -Canopy ampWindshield Covers -Baggage Compartments

AN HARDWARE - Bolts Q==shy - Ri vets - Nuts -Washers - Pins - Rttings -Screws - Fasteners ~

Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet 35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to

The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot2591

AIRCRAFT For Sale - Stearman A75 Nl beauti ful restoration on a 1030 n hours airframe and 100 hours since rebuilt 220 hp Continental W670GN engine 100 SMOH shielded ignition harness Hamilton Standard aluminum propeller cover with Ceconite and finished with polyurethane paint All manuals (flight aerobatics erection and maintenance) US registration N34KS fresh annual January 51992 Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FL Call Andy Montidoro 305739middot 3575 FAX305739middot9514 (7middot1)

MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe---Full color 130 pages $1795 Flymiddot About PO Box 51144 Centon TX 76206 (ufn)

SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMAmiddotd 4130 chromemiddot moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNshyTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5Rl 48N

OX-S Parts and Service - Free ads to subscribers Subscription $1800 yearly PO Box 134 Troy OH 45373 (7-6)

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINES-Out-of-print literature history restoration manuals etc Unique list of 2000+ scarce items $300 JOHN ROBY 3703V Nassau San Diego CA 9211 5 (Established 1960) (c-l092)

Parachutes - Toll Free 1-800-526-2822 New amp Used Parachutes We take trade-ins 5middotyear repair or replacement warranty many styles in stock Parachute Associates Inc 69 Main Street Suite A Vincentown NJ 08088 609859middot3397 (c792)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs - Newand reconditioned New middot$1475 reconditioned $575 to $975 New wire ends $475 Eagle Air 2920 Emerald Drive Jonesboro GA 30236 404478-2310 (cmiddotl092)

GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

AVEMCOs been really great about insuring lDy RV-4 I appreciate their no-hassle approach to aviation insurance ~~

You can insure your airplane with

any of severa l compan ies Before you

make your choice think about what

you want from your insurer If youre

like most pi lots you want service and

value Choose the company that

gives you the best service and value

for your money That company is

AVEMCO

Unlike others in the business

weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

customers have always known that

they can count on us to be there

year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

Dick Creswell BuilderPilot RV-4

than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

A+ Superior by AM Best Comshy

pany AM Best rates an insurance

company on its relative financial

strength and ability to meet contracshy

tual obligations

Call today for an immediate noshy

obligation quote

VEMCOreg INSURANCE COMPANY

1-800-638-8440 1-800-263-1631 By Aviation People For Aviation People

1N OME 06C Wli iE 117 OF LQCL CliIZEN

I-RIIIS WEshyiUR-IEI7 l-liO

Nil-tUS PiRO ~ shy SltElt -shylgtrll

EO- 3Igt6E 0IERiIN6 UN)tR MI1R1 P IRpoundcTION Iigt OWN vIECNIC

OBSERVER R9IO-MEN ltipoundN0611II-poundR7 NI7 l-lipoundlU6ENCE OFFICpoundRlt-shy

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 01 Registered Civil and

Military Aircralt O~R $1ggs

PAGES INCLTAXampSHPG

1992-93LimitedEdition Lists over 18000 owners of pre-1946 aircraft by adshydresscity and state crossshyindexedbyN numbermake

PGSIZE 85 x model and series Bonus Lists all operational aircraft by year built make model and series Everything you need to buy sell or evaluate aircraft

MASTERCHARGE ampVISA ACCEPTED

1-800-2n-8960~ PROFESSIONAL PRESS Po Box 4371middot Chapel Hill NC 27515-4371

Call for Subscribe your to

FREE copy JlEROPLANEof our 1992 1fws

catalog

CoIl1-800-831-2949 To order ACCESSORIES

-Windshields - Rlters B8DEi~~~f~~LS -Shock Cords -Tires -Tailwheels - Spark Plugs AIRFRAME PARTS bull Tubes bull Instruments - Spruce - Rr - Plywood -Wheel Brakes amp Axles - Adhesives bull Nails -Propellers -Tail Draggers - steel Sheet amp Tubing

-Master Cylinders Aluminum Sheet ampTubing

COVERING SYSTEMS

i - stits - Randolph -Ceconite -Air-Tech Dopes Fabrics Tapes

Primers amp Accessories

FABRIC ENVELOPES -stits - PI 03 and HD2X2 -Ceconite -1 01 and 102

DROP-IN INTERIOR KITS -Antique amp ClassiC Aircraft

INTERIOR ITEMS ~ -Cushion Sets - Headliners -Seat -Carpeting Slings -Canopy ampWindshield Covers -Baggage Compartments

AN HARDWARE - Bolts Q==shy - Ri vets - Nuts -Washers - Pins - Rttings -Screws - Fasteners ~

Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet 35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to

The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot2591

AIRCRAFT For Sale - Stearman A75 Nl beauti ful restoration on a 1030 n hours airframe and 100 hours since rebuilt 220 hp Continental W670GN engine 100 SMOH shielded ignition harness Hamilton Standard aluminum propeller cover with Ceconite and finished with polyurethane paint All manuals (flight aerobatics erection and maintenance) US registration N34KS fresh annual January 51992 Based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FL Call Andy Montidoro 305739middot 3575 FAX305739middot9514 (7middot1)

MISCELLANEOUS CURTISSJN4-0MEMORABILlA-You can now own memorabilia from the famous Jenny as seen on TREASURES FROM THE PAST We have posters postcards videos pins airmail cachets etc We also have RC documentation exdusive to this historic aircraft Sale of these items support operating expense to keep this Jenny flying for the aviation public We appreaate your help Write for your free price list Virginia Aviation Co RDvmiddot8 Box 294 Warrenton VA 22186 (C592)

Fly-About Adventures and the Ercoupe---Full color 130 pages $1795 Flymiddot About PO Box 51144 Centon TX 76206 (ufn)

SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMAmiddotd 4130 chromemiddot moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNshyTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5Rl 48N

OX-S Parts and Service - Free ads to subscribers Subscription $1800 yearly PO Box 134 Troy OH 45373 (7-6)

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINES-Out-of-print literature history restoration manuals etc Unique list of 2000+ scarce items $300 JOHN ROBY 3703V Nassau San Diego CA 9211 5 (Established 1960) (c-l092)

Parachutes - Toll Free 1-800-526-2822 New amp Used Parachutes We take trade-ins 5middotyear repair or replacement warranty many styles in stock Parachute Associates Inc 69 Main Street Suite A Vincentown NJ 08088 609859middot3397 (c792)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs - Newand reconditioned New middot$1475 reconditioned $575 to $975 New wire ends $475 Eagle Air 2920 Emerald Drive Jonesboro GA 30236 404478-2310 (cmiddotl092)

GEE BEE R-2-Model plans extensively Updated (used for WolfBenhamins) Plans CatalogNews $300 refundable Vern Clements EAA 9397 308 Palo Alto Caldwell ID 83605 (9-3)

1930s Kollsman Bubbleface compass have several NOS $225 each Many other vintage items - 44-page catalog $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box 706 Groveland CA 95321 209962-6121 (c-1292)

Aeronca ChampChief wings fully covered and painted with Grimes lights and aux Fuel tank $2400 for the pair 414727-9632

Taildragger Dragger - Now move your favorite aircraft singlehandedly and never lean on (or even touch) the airframel Just say Hello Dolly - Goodbye aching back Guaranteed For information 1-800-535middot8640 (7-4)

PLANS Great Lakes Trainer Guru - Harvey Swack will help you buy or sell a Great Lakes Trainer or a Baby Lakes The only source for CORRECTED and UPDATED ORIGINAL Great Lakes drawings Welded parts available Write to PO Box 228 Needham MA 02192 or call days 617444-5480 (cmiddotl092)

WANTED Wanted to trade -Sailboat - restorable middot 14 foot Ughtning for trade on pre-1960 two-four place airplane in fly-away condition Giving up sailing for flying Contact Hugh P Harrison 1110125 N Park Avenue Indianapolis IN 46280

Biplane Wanted-I am an antique enthusiast searching for an unusual restoration project Would favor a 1928-1940 three-place open cockpit biplane with racing past If you have or know of an aircraft that deserves to fly again please give me a call David Kaczmarek 416488middot0709 (9-3)

32 JULY 1992

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any of severa l compan ies Before you

make your choice think about what

you want from your insurer If youre

like most pi lots you want service and

value Choose the company that

gives you the best service and value

for your money That company is

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weve never compromised service or

In Canada Call

traded quality for quantity Our

customers have always known that

they can count on us to be there

year after year Thats the kind of

service you ll get from AVEMCO

Isnt that the kind of service you want

from your insurance company

AVEMCO is rated A+ Superior

Stabi lity is important and for 30

years AVEMCO has insured more

general aviation aircraft and pi lots

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than any other insurance company

AVEMCO is also proud to be rated

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