VA Vol 31 No 4 April 2003
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VOL. 31 , No. 4 APRIL 2003 2 VAA NEWS /H.G. Frau tsch y and Ric Reynolds 3 FRIENDS OF THE RED BARN 4 MORE ON RADIO AND ANTENNA INSTALLATIONS GETTING THE MESSAGE OUTl/Pau l Gould 6 PENNY'S PASPED THE ONE-OF-A-KIND PASPED SKYLARK/Bu dd Davisson 6 10 JOHN MI L LER RECALLS THE POPPY DROP OF 1928/Joh n M iller 12 THE VINTAGE INSTRUCTOR GO AROUND , TO FLARE, OR NOT TO FLARE? Dou g St ew art 14 TAKING OFF THERE IS NO PAINT LIKE THE AIR/Lon ni Su e Jo hnson 20 PASS IT TO BUCK TAIL WHEELS/Bu ck H ilbert 23 CALENDAR 24 MYSTERY PLANE 27 NEW MEMBERS 28 CLASSIFIED ADS 3 0 VAA MERCHANDISE EAA PU CATIONS 14 Publisher TOM POBEREZNY Editor-in-Chief scon SPANGLER Executive Editor MIKE DI FRISCO News Editor RIC REYNOLDS FRONT COVER: Chugging along in the one-of-a-kind Pasped Skylark are the owner, Photography Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS Buzz Penny and restorer Tom Brown . Years of use had taken its toll on the Pasped, TRISHA LUNDQUIST but Brown has restored it to its original factory configuration . It was presented with Advertising Coordinator JULIE RUSSO the Antique-Bronze Age Champion trophy at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2002. EAA Advertising/Editorial Assistant ISABELLE WISKE photo by Jim Koepnick, Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore. Copy Editing COLLEEN WALSH KATHLEEN WITMAN BACK COVER: One of our international artists in the 2002 Sport Aviation Art VINTAGE AIRPLANE Competition was Michael Short, of Pflugerville, Texas. "Bob 's Hornet" is the title of Executive Director, Editor HENRY G. FRAUTSCHY his oil painting of Bob Lee 's DeHaviliand DH 87B Hornet Moth, which is based just VAA Ad ministrative Assistant THERESA BOOKS outside Bristol, England. The painting was awarded an Honorable Mention ribbon Contributing Editors JOHN UNDERWOOD by the j ury. Michael also qualified as one of the Master Artists of the annual art BUDD DAVISSON competition. Artists who have had their pa intings presented with Par Excellence rib Graphic Designer OLIVIA l. PHILLIP bons th ree different years are so designated. ST BY ESPIE "BUTCH " JOYCE PRESIDENT, VINTAGE ASSOCIATION Serving members This issue of Vintage Airplane will airplanes aged and became treas be out during Sun 'n Fun in sunny ured airplanes, that sentiment was Lakeland, Florida. I will be visiting replaced with recognition of the with a number of you, and despite excellent work being done to re a little sunburn and dirt from the store the postwar airplanes. And sandy, dusty soil, I'll be having a enthusiasm for the antique air great time! One of the neatest plane never waned; it continues to editorial coverage to include all things about attending fly-ins is be a strong, integral part of our areas of our judging categories, seeing the wide variety of airplanes overall organization. weighted towards those areas with the Vintage Aircraft Association A 172 built in 1966 has been the strongest following. In 2002, (VAA) recognizes in the three differ maintained for over 35 years now, for instance, out of the 12 cover ent judging categories. and many of you who petitioned us subjects for the year, 6 were an Occasionally, we hear concerns to create this judging category, plus tiques (including Andrew King's that we placed a Cessna 172 or sim the VAA board, feel it's appropriate Ryan M-l restoration and Buzz ilar "modern" airplane on the cover to encourage the maintenance and Kaplan's Sikorsky 5-38 reproduc of your Vintage Airplane magazine. restoration of airplanes from this tion) and 6 were classics. None Our approach to vintage air era. When you read Vintage Airplane were contemporary airplanes. As planes has always been broader you will not find the pages filled it happens, there have been a pair than antique airplanes. We 've with how to fly to a grill and buy a in the first part of 2003, the 172 been reaching out to airplanes $100 hamburger because you can you saw, and the Geronimo on that are already acknowledged as find that type of article in ten other this month's cover. vintage airplanes, whether they aviation publications. We are about A few folks have wondered why predate World War II or were built supporting members from a techni we do not advance our judging cat in the decade following the war. cal standpoint, setting judging egory each year. Our experience In the early 1990s we added the standards that wi ll encourage peo does not indicate a need for it at contemporary category for judg ple to restore and maintain their this time. However, we review this ing after being petitioned by you aircraft, and having programs that matter each year, so the rules are for an expanded postwar category. are tailored to our class of aircraft not set in stone. Recognizing that airplanes pro for the membership. I hope that I have helped you duced after 1955 were a "different That 1966 172 will soon be 40 understand how the Vintage Air breed of cat," we chose to add a years old. The FAA has generally craft Association views the world of third category rather than expand said that from their standpoint, an older aircraft. We are always open the classic section. airplane that is 30 years old is con to your opinions regarding any A number of you related to me sidered an antique. As you would matters that affect your Associa that our expansion of the Contem expect, we've found that individu tion. We're also open to your porary category is reminiscent of als tend to be fond of the aircraft articles and thoughts on technical the time, early in the 1970s, when that was most popular when they issues. Feel free to contact your we added the classic category in became serious about flying and magazine's editor, H.G. Frautschy, if 1971. There was a similar "hue and aviation activities. you have a technical article you'd cry" about all owing Piper Cubs to On the other hand, there are like to submit. park in the same area as the an those aviation enthusiasts of a ll As a member you can help the tique airplanes. At that time, the ages who love the antiqu es and VAA by asking a friend to join up Cubs were only 25 years old or so, others who prefer the classics. I can with us. Let's all pull in the same and many felt that Cubs, Champs totally understand why they fee l direction for the good of aviation. and their ilk were not worthy of that way. Remember we are better together. the new judging status. As those We do o ur best to balance our Join us and have it all! ....... VINTAGE AIRPLANE s COMPILED BY H .G . FRAUTSCHY AND RIC REYNOLDS Continental Piston STC Issued VAA Picnic and Type Club Din added. "We ask our customers to Olde Thyme Aviation Inc. (OTA), known ners please be patient and under for the vintage aircraft collection they fly The VAA Picnic during AirVen standing if they encounter any at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field ture Oshkosh 2003 will be held the delays in receiving products." in Seattle, has been granted an STC for evening of Wednesday, July 30, at Since distributors have a decent replacement pistons for the Continental the EAA Nature Center Pavilion. supply of inventory, and they radial engines W-670-6A and -6N often Because it is so early in the week, can mix their own color topcoats affectionately known as the venerable plan to purchase your tickets right in-house, the overall impact on Continental 220's (220 hpj. Ken Hor after you arrive at Oshkosh. Tickets the end-user should be minimal, witz, president of OTA, said that the STC project was an "effort of love" and have "sold out" the last two years. Goldenbaum said. couldn't possibly justify the $100,000 Type clubs are again invited to Officials suspect the cause of the cost of engineering, engine, block run, hold their dinners at the VAA Pic fire was electrical, but no determi fuel, labor, and consulting required to nic. We will gladly reserve tables nation has been made. The gain the STC approval. for your group so you can all sit to company is open for business and "I can see what prevents the enthusi gether. To make plans for your is available for technical questions ast from attempting this, and I'm type club, contact Theresa Books as usual. For more information, doubtful that I would have pursued it if I in the VAA office at 920-426-6110 visit www.polyfiber.com. truly knew how expensive it was going to or via e-mail at [email protected]. be," says Horwitz, "But we fly six aircraft at the Museum of Flight that have this Operation POP Readies for famous engine, and I didn't want to Fire Destroys Poly-Fiber Office, Third EAA AirVenture change from the original authenticity be Warehouse Manufacturing Operation Protect Our Planes cause the country was out of pistons. Operation Saved (POP) is actively seeking individ Also, had it not been for a collaboration The office and warehouse uals (or families) to volunteer at of other individuals, we never would building of Poly-Fiber Inc., a lead EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003. have gotten this done. Pete Jones from ing manufacturer of fabric POP volunteers are highly visible, Air Repair Inc. contributed his entire file covering materials for the avia energetic convention volunteers on his earlier efforts to have the pistons made as far back as 1987.