JANUARY 2010 OFFICIALOFFICIAL MAGAZINEMAGAZINE OFOF TTHEHE INTERNATIONALI AEROBATIC CLUB R.A. “Bob” Hoover IAC’s 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee • The IAC turns 40 • The Doug Yost Scholarship PLATINUM SPONSORS Northwest Insurance Group/Berkley Aviation Sherman Chamber of Commerce GOLD SPONSORS Aviat Aircraft Inc. The IAC wishes to thank Denison Chamber of Commerce MT Propeller GmbH the individual and MX Aircraft corporate sponsors Southeast Aero Services/Extra Aircraft of the SILVER SPONSORS David and Martha Martin 2009 National Aerobatic Jim Kimball Enterprises Norm DeWitt Championships. Rhodes Real Estate Vaughn Electric BRONZE SPONSORS ASL Camguard Bill Marcellus Digital Solutions IAC Chapter 3 IAC Chapter 19 IAC Chapter 52 Lake Texoma Jet Center Lee Olmstead Andy Olmstead Joe Rushing Mike Plyler Texoma Living! Magazine Laurie Zaleski JANUARY 2010 • VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 1 • IAC SPORT AEROBATICS CONTENTS FEATURES 6 R.A. “Bob” Hoover IAC’s 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee – Reggie Paulk 14 Training Notes Doug Yost Scholarship – Lise Lemeland 18 40 Years Ago . The IAC comes to life – Phil Norton COLUMNS 6 3 President’s Page – Doug Bartlett 28 Just for Starters – Greg Koontz 32 Safety Corner – Stan Burks DEPARTMENTS 14 2 Letter from the Editor 4 Newsbriefs 30 IAC Merchandise 31 Fly Mart & Classifieds THE COVER IAC Hall of Famer R. A. “Bob” Hoover at the controls of his Shrike Commander. 18 – Photo: EAA Photo Archives LETTER from the EDITOR OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB Publisher: Doug Bartlett by Reggie Paulk IAC Manager: Trish Deimer Editor: Reggie Paulk Senior Art Director: Phil Norton Interim Dir. of Publications: Mary Jones Copy Editor: Colleen Walsh Contributing Authors: Doug Bartlett Lise Lemeland Stan Burks Phil Norton Greg Koontz Reggie Paulk IAC Correspondence International Aerobatic Club, P.O. Box 3086 Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086 Tel: 920.426.6574 • Fax: 920.426.6579 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising Director Katrina Bradshaw Tel: 920.426.6836 E-mail: [email protected] Representatives: Our Club Turns 40 NORTHEAST: Ken Ross Tel: 609.822.3750 Fax: 609.957.5650 his year marks the 40th He’d had an opportunity to discuss E-mail: [email protected] anniversary of the the nuances of the airplane with SOUTHEAST: Chester Baumgartner Tel: 727.532.4640 Fax: 727.532.4630 T International Aerobatic the chief flight test pilot, and it E-mail: [email protected] Club. That’s quite a feat, but what’s showed. His recollection of minute CENTRAL: Gary Worden & Todd Reese even more amazing is that 115 of details of airplanes he flew 60 years Tel: 800.444.9932 Fax: 816.741.6458 our current members have been ago or yesterday is astounding. E-mail: [email protected] with us the entire time. In the Congratulations, Mr. Hoover. [email protected] MOUNTAIN & PACIFIC: John Gibson months ahead, we’ll bring you Looking forward to the year Tel: 916.784.9593 Fax: 510.217.3796 some of their stories. In addition, ahead, we are planning some excit- E-mail: [email protected] we’re going to run articles from the ing new additions to the content EUROPE: Willi Tacke old days to show you just how far you have access to. The EAA has Tel: +49(0)1716980871 Fax: +49(0)8841/496012 we’ve come as an organization and been placing a lot of content online, E-mail: [email protected] a sport. and the IAC is Mailing: Change of address, lost or The January about to join the damaged magazines, back issues. issue is the Hall “ . even more bandwagon. If EAA-IAC Membership Services of Fame issue. For you’d like to have Tel: 800.843.3612 Fax: 920.426.6761 2009, the recipi- a part in shap- E-mail: [email protected] amazing is ent is none other ing the future of The International Aerobatic Club is a division of the EAA. than Bob Hoover. the online space, Vicki Cruse set up that 115 of our please don’t hesi- an opportunity for tate to send your me to spend time current members thoughts and sug- WWW.IAC.ORG WWW.EAA.ORG with Mr. Hoover gestions to the at EAA AirVenture have been board or me. EAA® and SPORT AVIATION®, the EAA Logo® and Aeronautica™ are registered trademarks and Oshkosh last sum- Some of you service marks of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. The use of these trademarks and service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. is strictly mer, and it is a have reached out prohibited. Copyright © 2009 by the International Aerobatic Club, Inc. 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Please submit news, comments, articles, or suggestions to: [email protected] 2 • JANUARY 2010 PRESIDENT’S PAGE by Doug Bartlett • [email protected] ne of the most enjoyable the way.” I would like to encourage The EAA has been very helpful events each year is the EAA each of us take the necessary time to with our e-newsletter, and Chairman O Hall of Fame dinner—which ensure that our annual inspections McConnell hopes to launch it by the takes place during the fall board are done with a good measure of end of the first quarter. He has asked meetings in Oshkosh. Although detail and not pushed through for member and chapter input as Oshkosh is not the easiest place to get in short order. Ensure that your to the type of information this new to in October, this one event makes mechanic understands the flight forum may provide and how it can the whole trip worthwhile. Imagine envelope of your aircraft, and that be effectively used for the benefit of a fancy dinner with hundreds of he or she is looking for signs of our members and chapters. Also, we fellow pilots and volunteers, held potential failure. Spend the time are looking for a catchy name! Please in a museum hangar where you are necessary to inspect your aircraft forward ideas to Doug McConnell at surrounded by authentic warbirds. with the mechanic and talk about [email protected]. Not only are you sitting next to the types of problems your model Speaking of e-mail, I have been your International Aerobatic Club has experienced over the past several surprised in the first few months (IAC) friends, but at the next table years. Your mechanic should have as president of the IAC by how few is none other than IAC Hall of Fame experience with aerobatic aircraft. My e-mails have been sent. In an earlier inductee Bob Hoover. mechanic spent the summer of 2008 article, members were encouraged to The stories you hear at this event working the air show circuit and is stay in contact with their regional are amazing. For example, Bob very familiar with the stresses placed directors and the presidents of their Hoover tells the story of how he on these planes. Brian chapters. Let me add to escaped a German prisoner of war will often tell me, this. I would like to hear camp, stole a German aircraft, and “If it were a Cessna The stories directly your thoughts flew to friendly lines. At the next 182, I wouldn’t be about our IAC.