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i&{{/!.&6ercv& 0(m v IelUn.a11 :J#'.9i.onv [Tom !lb6e/'t'V& .fteoe 1/ktmo/l O'Aul-b ~ 0kA J ff(,tt !/eorye jj~ 9Te#I 'tlel:s jf!!o~ !£>Ae~s aJoo aJl'(luel'­"g'jltCh" .91.ZIbel'b §.uzbe& WtSk itA,t {j'Oftison c%ch 6"ojxknti J~0ty;tCk, fok STf&el'{f/ (]J,II &cM&!7 JffarY ftNleP aJoo$un/(Y • fton /JOmol/ .A ~ !l>eteMe/v ,fteue Aesse ~lJale (;ttslf!fi-Oll 0ich O'aO(/l 1Ila '}cA/IIid aJtttcA c7,&ce !kO{Ye .9Tnl'ciie­foAn aJt:re/ldt ,In J1O(9u'l 0emiM !.ll-trM, .Yme, O'Ause !7en.c J1O~ :%'1/ 9TotjJmch .!leo{Ye 0at'/Hlel'­6arl, FcAujJJeI C:ftonnie- .9'll/t PUBLICATION STAFF PUBLISHER VICE-PRESIDENT MARKETING & COMMUNICAnONS Dick Man EDITOR Mark Phelps ART DIRECTOR Mike Drucks DECEMBER 1989. Vol. 17, No" 12 ADVERnSING Mary Jones Copyright ~ 1989 by the EAA AntiquelClassic Division, Inc. All rights reserved. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Norman Petersen Dick Cavin FEATURE WRITERS George A Hardie, Jr. Dennis Parks Contents EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Isabelle Wiske STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS 4 Antique Classic News/ Jim Koepnick Carl Schuppel compiled by Mark Phelps Jeff Isom EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC 6 Aerograms DIVISION, INC. OFFICERS President Vice President 8 Vintage Literaturelby Dennis Parks Esple "Butch" Joyce Arthur R Morgan Page 6 604 Highway SI. 3744 North 51st Blvd. Madison, NC 27025 Milwaukee, WI 53216 10 Members' Projectslby Norm Petersen 919/427-0216 4141442-3631 Secretary Treasurer George S. York E.E. "Buck" Hilbert 14 Chapter Capsuleslby Bob Brauer 181 Sloboda Ave. P.O. Box 424 Mansfield. OH 44906 Union, IL 60180 419/529-4378 815/923-4591 15 Pass It To Bucklby E. E. "Buck" Hilbert DIRECTORS Robert C. "Bob" Brauer John S. Copeland 16 Vintage Seaplaneslby Norm Petersen 9345 S. Hoyne 9 Joanne Drive Chicago, IL 60620 Westborough, MA 01581 312m9-2105 508/366-7245 18 From Zero to 450lby Norm Petersen Page 18 Philip Coulson William A Eickhoff 28415 Springbroak Dr. 41515th Ave .. N.E. Lawton, MI 49065 St. Petersburg, FL 33704 24 Famous Grouse Rallylby Chris and 616/624-6490 813/823-2339 Mavis Parker Charles Harris Stan Gomoll 3933 South Peoria 1042 90th Lane, NE P.O. Box 904038 Minneopolis, MN 55434 30 Welcome New Members Tulsa, OK 74105 6121784-1172 9181742-7311 Robert D. "Bob" Lumley 32 Vintage Trader Dale A Gustafson 1265 South 124th St. 7724 Shady Hill Drive Broakfield, WI 53005 Indianapolis, IN 46278 4141782-2633 Mystery Planelby George Hardie, Jr. 317/293-4430 35 Steven C. Nesse Page 24 Gene Morris 2009 Highland Ave. 115C Steve Court, R.R. 2 Albert Lea, MN 56007 Roanoke, TX 76262 507/373-1674 817/491-9110 s.H. OWes" Schmid Daniel Neuman 2359 Lefeber Avenue 1521 Berne Circle W. FRONT COVER ... Doug Kiel splashes color across the countryside in Wauwatosa, WI 53213 his rip-snorting 450 Steorman. See Norm Petersen's story on this re­ Minneopolis, MN 55421 414m1-1545 612/571-0893 markable young man on poge 18. (Photo by Jeff Isom, Photo plane flown by Norm Petersen) DIRECTOR EMERITUS s.J. Wlnman 7200 S.E. 85th Lane REAR COVER ... Skeeter Carlson's Curtiss IN-4 ' Canuck" in front of the Ocala, FL 32672 Red Barn at EAA Oshkosh '89. Skeete(s airplane is one of the six 904/245-7768 Jennies that flew at Oshkosh and are also feotured in a new video available from EAA entitled, "Irs Gona Be A Jenny: ADVISORS (Photo by Jim Koepnick) John Berendt Gene Chase 7645 Echo Point Rd. 2159 Carlton Rd. Cannon Falls, MN 55009 Oshkosh, WI 54903 The WOlds EM ULTRALIGHT. FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM, SPORT AVIATION. and !he logos 01 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC., EM INTERNA· 507/263-2414 414/231-5002 TIONAL CONVENTION , EM ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION INC , INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB INC., WARBIRDS OF AMERICA INC.. are registered 1rOOemar1

1989 REFERENCE GUIDE dication to safety. He totally enjoyed The Supplemental Type Certificate John Bergeson has really changed his long and distinguished flying for use with this new fabric is the 1989 Reference Guide for the EAA career; it was his passion. But just SA4503NM . This STC number may be magazines. It will be much easier to perhaps John's most prized and happy used free of charge by purchasers of use as there is only one, covering all years had been these past years, these the "Ceconite" fabric. For full infor­ EAA magazines from 1953 through years earned after retirement from the mation on this new advanced product, 1989 . Further, the Reference Guide is burden of the corporate jet world, these contact: Blue River Aircraft Supply, much less expensive - for example, last years when he restored and flew 223 N. Clay (P.O.Box 460), Harvard, the cost to U. S. purchasers is only $15 his precious open cockpit N3Ns. It NE 68944, 4021772-3651; FAX # plus $1.50 UPS . For past purchasers was, if you will, as he came into his 4021772- 2039. living in the U. S., the cost is only aerial career so many years ago in the $7.50 plus $1.50 UPS . Canadian pur­ little Wiley Post biplane, only this time chasers and purchasers from other with the experience, skill, judgment Historic Jenny video available countries will receive equivalent sav­ and knowledge that could only come EAA's award-winning video re­ ings. from a lifetime of flying . His Ns were cently put the finishing touches on a The new Reference Guide will be works of art, as strong as bridges and fascinating look at the history of the available January, 1990. Order from as beautiful as the freshly scrubbed Curtiss JNA "Jenny" ... and the re­ John B. Bergeson, 6438 W . faces of young maidens. His touch on markable impact that venerable Millbrook, Remus, MI 49340, 5171 the controls was feather light, his head­ airplane had on aviation history. 561-2393. VISA/MASTERCARD ac­ ing always true. John was a giant This 30-minute video, entitled, "It's cepted. Note: He has all magazines and among us; his memory is a treasure to Gotta Be A Jenny" enables viewers to will make copies of any article(s) from us . When you are up there on perfect understand what it feels like to fly one any issue at 25 cents per page ($3 days, look for him; he will be waiting of aviation's most recognized and sig­ minimum). for you - as he flys forever in clear nificant airplanes. See rare footage blue skies and soft smooth tailwinds! from the Jenny 's earliest days as a mil­ God speed, John. - Charlie Harris, itary trainer, its later role as the John Bouteller A /C Chapter 10, Tulsa, Oklahoma. airplane used most often by the daring The aviation world and our aviation "barnstormers," a comprehensive look community lost a leader, a skilled and at Ken Hyde's beautiful restoration of experienced pilot, a fine technician, a New High Tensile Aircraft his 1918 IN-4D and much, much man of unusual and varied talents, but Covering Fabric more. most of all, we lost a friend in the death Ceconite, Inc. and Blue River Air­ "It's Gotta Be A Jenny" is a loving of John Bouteller. John's flying career craft Supply announce the availability look at a very special airplane. The spanned fifty years. From his small of a new, lightweight, high tensile fab­ tape is now available for $24.95 (plus Wiley Post biplane of 1939 to his Fal­ ric for aircraft use. "Ceconite" 104HT $3 shipping and handling; cons and Lears of the 1980s, there was is the most recent "Ceconite" product residents add five percent sales tax). little sky around the world that John development. It is a very lightweight To order, call EAA's toll free video had not seen from behind the wind­ fabric (1.9 oz. per sq. yd.). However, hotline, 1-800-843-3612. screen of his airborne chariot. It would due to the fact that it is produced with be safe to say that few if any aviators a high tenacity yarn, it offers tensile have ever experienced a more varied strength equivalent to "Ceconite" 102 VINTAGE AIRPLANE and rewarding career. From the days and greater than grade "A" cotton fab­ adds color pages of teaching military students in Stear­ ric . Starting with the January 1990 mans at Cimmaron Field to the T-6s of "Ceconite" 104HT and 7610HT will issue, VINTAGE AIRPLANE will add the military, to the Twin Beeches and produce a smoother surface finish and four pages of color to the magazine on A-26s of Service Pipe Line, to the a lighter aircraft cover than any of the a quarterly basis. The board of direc­ Lockheeds and later the Falcons, other "Ceconite" products available. tors, at its November meeting, voted Sabres and Lears of the corporate When used with the Ceconite 7600 to add the pages to amplify coverage world, John flew and commanded with covering process, the fabric will be of the expanding, colorful world of an­ consummate skill and unparalleled de­ listed as 76104HT. tique and classic aircraft. •

4 DECEMBER 1989 He walks back around the aircraft, flips the magneto switch inside the cockpit and returns to his former position in front of the plane. Grasping the propeller once again, he pulls down once, twice, and the engine fires to life. HE KNOWS HOW TO TREAT A LADY Freedom in the Taylorcraft comes with no battery or electrical system to start the by Ray Hemman, Hutchinson News airplane. Freedom also comes with few instru­ ments - an oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, altimeter, compass, engine tachometer and airspeed indicator. The airspeed indicator, by the way, measures speed in miles per hour; today's planes Editor's note ... the following story ap­ it evokes. measure speed in knots . peared on the front page of the Sunday, "I had one of these in the '50s," he said. "A fancy lawn mower has more gauges," October 1 edition of the Hutchinson News " You could buy one with 600 hours on it he said. in Hlllchinson, Kansas . Reporter Hemman for $600. I was in college at the time . It And it does haye a deluxe fuel gauge for and photographer Chris Ochsner spent the (his original Taylorcaft) was red and the tank in the bird's nose. The gauge is a day with John McDonald and his Taylor­ black ." wire that sticks through the top of the craft, flying, talking and taking piclllres. Indeed, McDonald commuted from Lit­ gasoline cap. Attached to the bottom of the Thanks to this newspaper's positive ap­ tle River to his job at the Cessna aircraft wire is a cork that floats on top of the fuel. proach to sport aviation, the citizens of plant in Wichita one summer during the Hence , the longer the length of wire Hutchinson have a clearer view of what 1950s for work. During the entire summer, showing, the more fuel the tank has. personal flying is all about. he had to drive only one day because the Once McDonald gets into the air, rela­ We aviators sometimes take people such weather was bad . tively little engine noise is heard . The 65­ as John McDonald for granted. When a His original Taylorcraft had a third color horsepower, four-cylinder, Continental en­ story such as this appears in the general - silver. The silver was from areas of bare gine is quiet compared to the roar of larger press, we can beller appreciate what kind metal where hailstones had knocked off the planes. of people share our love for flying and finish. The horizon on the early fall day is fairly classic airplanes. "It was parked out there with the new clear; Hutchinson can be seen by the time Cessnas each day - red and black with he reaches 1,000 feet in altitude. The air is spots of silver," he said. cool and calm; the flight takes on a dreamy A flight in the plane shows another feel­ quality as the plane drifts through the sky. As John McDonald talks about his lady , ,ing McDonald gets out of his Taylorcraft McDonald trims the plane by rotating a there is no doubt that she is not ordinary. today - freedom . Unlike more modem crank on the cabin's ceiling. He momentar­ As he runs his hand across her back and birds that are connected with radio-wave ily takes his hands off the wheel as he looks at her face-to-face , you can see the umbilical cords to air traffic controllers , makes a notation in his black operations love McDonald has. And for good reason. McDonald's only direct contact is between notebook . "I get about the same feeling flying this himself and the plane - unless he has a McDonald's plane was manufactured in plane that I did flying when I was 17 ," the passenger in the two-seat plane. Alliance, Ohio, in October 1946. 61-year-old from Windom said last week McDonald's type of flying - known as As McDonald banks the plane into its as he talked about his lady, a red-and-black sport flying - provides a solitude si milar final approach, his eyes take the place of a 1946 Taylorcraft Scotsman . to another outdoor sport in Kansas. two-way radio . He scans the skies for any McDonald, a product design consultant "I use flying like a lot of other guys use other planes that might be landing. in the manufactured housing industry, met fishing," he said. "Well, I don't see my Lear," he said, his Taylorcraft through an aviation trade As he prepares the plane for flight, referring to a jet that is based at the airport. publication . He purchased the bird in 1977 McDonald pushes it out onto the apron . When McDonald lands the plane, it from Warren Long in Thomasville, Geor­ One person can maneuver the taildragging drifts in smoothly, flares and then touches gia. The plane was restored in 1975 to its plane on the ground without help because down. Keeping the bird on the ground, original condition by the owner who had it weighs only 724 pounds empty . however, can be a challenge. Because of sold it to Long . After blocking the front wheels, its light weight, the plane easily becomes Since McDonald purchased the plane, it McDonald opens the door to the cabin, but airborne. Little puffs of wind upon landing has won 37 awards as a classic aircraft in does not get in . He instructs those nearby bounce the plane back into the air. competition. This summer, the plane re­ to get behind the aircraft - away from the McDonald won' t name a price for hi s ceived its third award at the Oshkosh, Wis­ propeller. He asks one bystander to hold plane. Typically, a two-seat Taylorcraft consin show, an internationally acclaimed the plane near the tail to keep it from mov­ would sell for $6,000 to $10,000. Because fly-in that draws thousands of aircraft each ing when it starts. of the immaculate condition of his bird and year. This is the "cheaper" version of the plane the attention to original detail, the plane is McDonald slept with his plane two and has only one door. Both pilot and pas­ worth considerably more . weeks during the show at Oshkosh, camp­ senger contort their way into the plane But it's not for sale at any price. ing out under her wing. He often sleeps through a door that is about half the size "I had a man from England ask me about with the plane at air shows. of a door on a subcompact car. the price at Oshkosh," he said. "I didn' t While the awards help justify the long The pilot goes to the front of the plane, give him one, because Jwas afraid he might hours McDonald must devote to the plane pulls on a pair of gloves and grasps the take it. to keep it in peak condition, the awards are gleaming silver propeller. He manually "I've had the plane for 12 years. J have not the reason he flies it. He flies it because turns the engine over twice by the propeller no intention of changing it or selling it." of the feeling it gives him and the memories to prime it. This lady is not for sale . •

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5 standing original 1947 Straight 35 . It is Serial 1110, manufactured in November 1947. Mrs. Coigny and I flew it to Osh­ kosh in 1977 and again in 1987 . We hope to fly it to Oshkosh again in 1997. At that time I'll be 85 years old. We flew in the Parade of Flight in both 1977 and 1987, and hope to be asked again in 1997. The engine is still performing excellently with I ,800 hours' total. Total time on the airframe is also 1,800 hrs. The engine has had no overhaul. Our Bonanza is rated by the State of California as a "Show Type Classic" airplane and is exempted from property taxes . I enjoy being a member of EAA and EAA's AIC group. I look forward to the magazines each month. I would like to build a homebuilt but would have to sell the Bonanza at a good price to do so. Keep up all of the good - hope to VI,....T~(3~ ~1l2VL~,....~ see you in 1997 - perhaps sooner! Best wishes, Gerald B. Coigny A~l2() Miramonte, California Seabee note Norm: Great, great picture on page 11 of VINTAGE AIRPLANE (October '89)!! Kimberly and I flew the Seabee to Geneseo, New York last weekend to visit their museum and look at a Wid­ geon that is for sale. The Seabee-Wid­ geon combo really hit home. Bob & Kimberly Redner West Bloomfield, Michigan Seabird song Howaya?, howaya? Dear Norm: Congratulations on your fine article, Dear friends, cences you or others may be able to "Sea Bird Sonata" (September). I found I am researching a book on the life share with me . it even more enjoyable since her de­ and times and activities of Arthur God­ Lee R. Munsick signer, Jim Reddig, is a dear friend. frey. In addition to his broadcasting , 20 Harriet Drive Jim is a youthful 82-year-old who got he was very active in other interests: Whippany, New Jersey 07981-1906 his degree in aeronautical engineering amateur radio, musical comedy, avia­ from MIT circa 1930. He is a tion , military service, horsemanship, Bonanza bout storehouse of aviation lore and a most jazz and other music, ecology, etc. Dear Sirs: delightful person. The enclosed photos I'm certain that a number of your A couple weeks ago I received your were taken at Oshkosh in 1986, when readers knew Mr. Godfrey , and brochure advertising "Our Organiza­ Channing Clark flew his Sea Bird there worked with him. I'd like them to con­ tion" - I have been a member since from California. tact me. 1977 . When I unfolded the brochure I I have put almost 140 hours on my Any assistance you can give me by was pleased to see our silver with red Bellanca Champ (Members' Projects spreading the word of my quest to trim 35 Bonanza NC3869N. You have July, 1989) since I got her last Feb­ reach colleagues of Mr. Godfrey will mislabeled it as a "D" Model, perhaps ruary . For an old-timer like me she is be appreciated - no doubt a note or because it resembles the show winner a real joy to fly . an article in your publication(s) will early Bonanza that has been in First I talked with Jim (he is a bit hard of help. Place for many years at Oshkosh. hearing) as soon as I saw your article . I may be reached at (201)386-1920. Our pictured Bonanza received the Since he is not an AIC member, just Thank you for any ideas or reminis­ Lindbergh Trophy in 1977 as an out­ EAA, he had not seen it. With the en­ 6 DECEMBER 1989 Jim Reddig (left) and Rowland Hall.

closed for postage I hope you can send him a copy. Keep up the good work! OWN A PIECE OF AVIATION HISTORY Sincerely, Smithsonian aviation prints ...with original fabric from each aircraft! Rowland L. Hall Limited-edition prints A signed Certificate of Northfield, IL feature 7 historic aircraft in Authenticity from the And so we did collection of Smithsonian Smithsonian and a colorful Institution's National Air & 2-page history, portraying My dear Mr. Petersen, Space Museum in the aircraft and its illustrious This acknowledges your favors and Washington D.C. past, is included with each kind remarks of your date of 2 October print. '89, with thanks . Since first going to Four square inches of Special duotone printing Oshkosh, I have been threatened with original fabric, removed from the aircraft during process adds realism and interviews. But the threats proved un­ restoration by Smithsonian, depth to the aircraft images, founded until last year, '88, when I is affIxed to each print. Each reproduced from Smithsonian was hog-tied on the lawn in front of piece of fabric unique and archival photos. the antique airplane cottage for some­ different, textured by the • passage of time and Aviation Relic Prints... thing like three hours of taping and vid­ weathered by the elements. an investment in aviation eotape. Now: see if you can't track history! down all that mess of tape. - If you Print, framed in solid wood then have gaps or errors or questions, (20'1, x 26'1,), with color­ I'll do my best to fill in. This long " ... a most interesting gift WRIGHT EX "VIN FIZ" coordinated matboards. 1st trans· us flight , 1911 ($150 each, includes shipping) recording session covered "Sea Birds," idea for the vintage airplane lover, or just about anyone FOKKffi T·2 Print only (15 x 20). and way back to little airplanes that who wants to brighten his 1st non-stop trans·US, 1923 ($58 each, includes shipping) went down, down, down in the sea in den, airplane lover or not. " BLERIOT XI Michigan deliveries add 4% 1914 French monoplane submarines. With growing senility, my The Saturday Evening Post MC/VISA orders call TOLL­ ALBAlROS D.VA problem is to shut up, once started! Gerrmn WWl fighter FREE: 800-533-7763, or send We could have fun - we just need the " ... remnants cut from the check to: cloth of history, Aviation DE HAVILLAND DH4 opportunity. US·built WWl bomber AVIATION RELIC PRINTS Relic Prints has grne beyond 8152 N. 32nd St. , Box 576 My grateful thanks for the mags! CURTISS NC4 mere paintings with its series Ist trans·At1antic flight, 1919 Richland, MI 49083 Sincerely, of duotone prints. " 616·629·5858 DOUGLAS WORLD CRUISER Jim Reddig AOPA Pilot magazine 1st round·the·world flight , 1924 Prices effective thru t/t5/90 Webster, New York • VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7 by Uennis Val"ks

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JANE'S COVERAGE OF THE US statistical capabilities of the database . the decade. AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY I 920s ­ Despite the competItIOn from 1930s THE 1920s surplus materials, the industry was One of the recent projects of the growing rapidly. In the introduction to EAA Aviation Foundation's Boeing First, a disclaimer on the figures the 1920 volume, JANE'S remarked Aeronautical Library has been to create given. Our data lacks the entries for on the growth of the industry. a database of information about US air­ JANE'S 1921, 1923 and 1924. Vol­ "In fact, the new designs since the craft manufacturers from JANE'S ALL umes for those years are not in our col­ autumn of 1919 are so numerous that THE WORLDS AIRCRAFT from lection. If anyone could help us out in order to get them all into a book of 1920 through 1939. manageable size it has been necessary The rationalle has been two-fold. this year to pack the illustrations and One, to provide an index to specifica­ specifications of each aeroplane and tions of American aircraft between the engine much more tightly into the wars that appeared in JANE'S and sec­ pages than has been customary in pre­ ond, to provide a listing of US man­ vious volumes." The 1920 JANE'S ufacturers, where they were located, lists 174 manufacturers of aircraft. The what aircraft they produced and when fluid nature of the industry and its they appeared in JANE'S . financing are reflected in that these 174 Such information provides an easy­ with a donation of volumes for these companies' headquarters were listed in to-use directory of the domestic air­ years, it would be most appreciated . 328 locations over the decade. craft industry in two decades crucial to Although civil and commercial air­ Sikorsky was listed in four different the development of the aviation in the craft production began in 1919, few locations, all within the state of New United States. machines were sold because there were York. Having the information in a com­ few practical uses for the planes. New Martin, among other companies puter database provides a chance to production also had to compete with made larger jumps than from city to generate some interesting data , such as war-surplus Jennies and Standards . city, first being located in Cleveland which states hosted the most com­ New engine development was also (1920-28) and then moving to Balti­ panies in a particular year or decade, hampered by the availability of war more in 1929. which in tum shows the shifting geo­ surplus OX5 and Liberty engines. It is also interesting to see where graphic patterns of aircraft production. More than 20,000 Libertys were built some centers of the aircraft industry In this article such patterns and and OX5 engines continued to be used were in the 1920s. For example, there trends will be examined using the in production aircraft until the end of were six companies listed in Buffalo

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8 DECEMBER 1989 1920 1925 1929 1935 1939 11-NY 11-NY 19-NY 13-CA 14-CA 3-0H 3-NJ 12-MI 8-NY 7-NY 2-CA 2-0H 11-CA 6-PA 5-PA

Number of Aircraft Manufacturers by State. Only States with more than one company are listed.

during the decade and some beyond: tween biplanes and monoplanes. derivations of the word "sport" were Consolidated (1925-34), Eberhart During the course of the decade, the common with II companies using such (1927-28) , Elias (1922-29) , Fleet US aviation industry produced nearly names. (1929-31), General (1922-30); Hall 16,000 aircraft . Variations included: Sport, Light (1928-34) . Sport, Senior Sportster, Sport Airse­ In fact, during the 1920s the East 1930s dan, Sport Mailwing, Sport Mono­ was the center of US aviation manufac­ plane, Sport Pursuit, Sport Trainer, turing activity. New York state topped The post-Lindbergh era saw a great Sport V-8, Sports Single, Sportsman, the list with 45 companies listed during increase in the number of aircraft com­ Sportster, Sportwing, and Super­ the decade. Next most productive state Sport. was Michigan with 29 corporations By 1935 California had become the listed. Ohio was third with 15 listed. leading state for aircraft companies The expansion of the industry is also with 13 listed. New York dropped to shown by the growth in the number of second with eight companies listed. states producing aircraft. In 1920 three panies and the appearance of reliable Among the companies that moved states were listed as having more than engines. The trend in configuration headquarters to California from New one aircraft company each. By 1925, was towards the cabin monoplane with York were North Am'erican and Con­ five states had more than one company a radial engine. The end of the decade solidated. Though the industry shifted and by 1929, 24 states were rep­ saw a trend to all-metal monoplane to California, over the course of the resented in JANE'S with 13 having construction for commercial aircraft. decade New York was the city with more than one manufacturer. In fact By the 1930s a series of aeronautical the most companies with 17. Wichita New York, Michigan and California developments from the 1920s became is next with 11 followed by Buffalo had more than 10 with New York lead­ common features . These included with 10. ing the list with 19 companies. streamlining (See: "Streamlining" in Despite the Depression and having The accompanying chart lists the the July 1989 VINTAGE AIRPLANE), about the same number of companies number of companies per state for variable-pitch propellers , wing flaps, as the previous decade the industry was selected periods from 1920 to 1939. and engine cowlings. These develop­ more productive in the 1930s. During This figure shows the gradual migra­ ments were reflected in such modern the course of the decade the US aircraft tion of the center of the industry to aircraft as the Boeing 247 and the industry produced more than 25,000 California. Douglas DC-3. By the end of the dec­ aircraft and in only one year - 1925 On its way to California the aviation ade such improvements even reached - did military production exceed industry settled some of its members the light plane market with the de­ civil. in Wichita, Kansas including Swallow velopment of the Luscombe Phantom. (1921), Travel Air (1926), Laird JANE'S lists more than 180 man­ LONGEVITY (1928) , Cessna (1928), and Stearman ufacturers for the decade in I 13 loca­ (1928) . (See "The Swallow and tions producing more than 600 differ­ It is interesting to note that though Wichita Aviation" in the April 1988 ent aircraft models. It can ~e seen by these were two turbulent decades in the VINTAGE AIRPLANE.) the lower number of locations that the industry, six companies that were in There were also a wide variety of industry seemed more stable than in business in 1920 were still around in aircraft produced during the decade. the 1920s. Though the number of man­ 1939. They were Bellanca, Boeing, JANE'S identifies more than 400 mod­ ufacturers in the decade is not much Curtiss, Lockheed (Loughhead in els from the various manufacturers , more than the previous one , the 1920), Martin, and Vought. Of these from the Acme Sportsman to the number of new aircraft developed indi­ two, Boeing and Bellanca were still Zenith Albatross. cates that in spite of the poor economy headquartered in the same cities as in The average aircraft of this time of the nation, the aviation industry con­ 1920. period was an open-cockpit , steel­ tinued to grow. Our nation was fortunate to have tube-fuselage biplane. By the end of In spite of, or maybe in response to these resources on the verge of World the decade there was a 50-50 split be­ the Depression, names of aircraft using War II .•

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9 MEMBERS' PROJECfS by Norm Petersen

These two photos of a ·Champ & owner" were sent in by lyle G. Wines (EAA 300 157, NC 11904) of Cambria, California lyle, who is a young aO-year-old, taught aviation mechanics in the 1940s before going to work with the California Dept. of Corrections. Retiring in 1971, he once again became involved in aviation when he purchased the Aeronca Champi­ on, N1191E. SIN 7AC-4748, as a true basket case. The wings were completely demolished from the 11ft struts outboard, necessitating complete fabrication of two new wings includ­ ing ribs, spars, leading edges and fittings. The fuselage was intact and airworthy and the tail feathers had minor damage. The rebuild included new Stits envelopes and finishing. lyle reports the rebuild took 22 months (not fulltime) and the Champ flew "hands off" on its first flight. The engine has been converted to 75hp and the prop was overhauled by a prop shop. lyle is busy flying the Champ while considering his next project - a Kilfox - which fascinated him at EAA Oshkosh '89! 10 DECEMBER 1989 Undergoing a complete rebuild is Stinson 108-1, N8874K, SIN 108-1874, owned by Peter Brucato (EAA 224456) of Kensington, New Hampshire. Stits HS90X is being used and from the pictures, the workmanship looks first class. Peter overhauled the Franklin 150 engine including crankshaft replacement (the old one had a bent flange). Hoping to be airborne by 1990, Peter and his wife will then be ready to rebuild their Piper PA-12, N7576H, SIN 12-447. Both admit to a great experience in aircraft rebuilding and have met many new friends and helpers in the process.

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11 MEMBERS' PROJECTS

This pretty yellow with brown trim Stinson SM-8A NC416Y, SIN 4251. is earning its keep taking passengers for sight-seeing rides over the Red Rock country near Sedona. Arizona Owned by Steve Bolan (EM 58388) of Scottsdale, Arizona. the Stinson operates from a hard surfaced airporf over 4800 fl. above sea leveL Steve reporfs the combination of mechanical brakes and a full swiveling tailwheel gives both the pilot and the tires a good workout! NC416Y was formerly owned by Ted Beckwith, Jr. (EM 217617, AlC 7929) of Lebanon. Tennessee.

Standing in front of their Luscombe 8A G-AKUK (Ex-NC1166B), SIN 5793, are owners Mike & Vicki Weatherly of 13A Clarence Rd, New Gardens, Richmond. Surrey, TW9 3NL England. Imported from the U.S. in October, 1988, the Luscombe has been flown about 75 hours to date, mostly around the south of England. The Luscombe is based at White Waltham Airfield. about 35 miles west of London. and is flown off three grass runways! Stable mates include two other Luscombes, a Waco, Stearman. Porterfield. several Cubs and Vaga­ bonds. 12 DECEMBER 1989 Standing in the bright sunlight is Taylorcraft BC-12D, NC43392, S/N7051, which has been owned since new (1946) by the gentleman standing at the propeller, Cecil Crayton (EM 611) of Everett, Washington Finished in a dark blue and cream colored paint scheme, the T-Craft has less than 500 hours total time since new! Note the Cessna 140 wheel pants which have been on the T-Craft since 1946!

Presently undergoing a complete restoration is this 180hp Hisso powered Travel Air 3000 which Cecil Crayton of Everett, Washington has owned since 1942! Cecil recently made a trip east to purchase "Buck" Hilbert's 180 Hisso engine for the project. Cecil hopes to have the big biplane ready for flight in the summer of 1990.

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13 CHAPTER CAPSULES

by Bob Brauer

Stan is performing The Minnesota Antique Flyers,AIC final adjustments on Chapter 4, has been holding its quar­ the Red Bam weath­ terly meetings in President Stan er vane provided by Antique/Classic Gomoll's hangar at Anoka County Air­ Chapter 4. Are you port (James Field), north of Minneapolis, absolutely sure about since 1976. This location is convenient the orientation? to the membership which resides in the Twin Cities and surrounding com­ munities. Most of the 60 members, many of whom are retired airline pilots, are active in chapter functions and projects, including founders, Jim Hom , Ray Redmond , and Stan Gomoll. Stan has been the chapter's president Chapter 4 member si nce its founding and works closely Bill Halverson's Osh­ on a regular basis with members want­ kosh '89 Antique Grand ing ass istance on their restoration pro­ Champion Beech jects. However Stan has been pretty G17S (1947). busy himself. His 1946 J-3 , which he flew to Oshkosh, earned the "Out­ standing Cub" Award two years in a row. Projects of Chapter 4 members range from custom building to restor­ ing antique and classic aircraft. Eldo Kirchner, who currently flies a Corvair powered Pietenpol, has restored a PA­ 12 and an L2M Taylorcraft. Other re­ storations include Ray Swanson's rare Olympian 7KC and George Quast's Aeronca C2. George's project was partIcIpate. Among the favorites are speakers for meetings. Stan considers serialized in this year's February picnic fly-outs held two or three times these contacts a great way of keeping through June issues of VINTAGE each year. Everyone who attends the line of communications open be­ AIRPLANE. Not to be overlooked, of brings a picnic food which is shared by tween themselves and government reg­ course, is Bill Halverson's EAA Osh­ all. However, the annual Christmas ulators. "Communication is the big kosh '89 Grand Champion Antique party held at Stan's hangar is the thing," he commented. "For instance, Beech Staggerwing G 17S. Bud Lin­ biggest social event of the year. Stan it is our goal to read as many other demer, also in the Beech family, re­ says, "Our social events are low-keyed chapter newsletters as possible and to stored a 1944 D17S . and are made as family oriented as pos­ get out newsletters of our own to other Chapter members also find the time sible. That way the wives of our mem­ chapters." This aim is accomplished to serve our division. John Fogarty, an bers will let the boys fly whenever they through the efforts of Newsletter AIC advisor, and Stan Gomoll, an AIC want to." Stan added that since all their Editor, Noel Allard. director, provided the observation to­ social events became family centered, In the near future Stan will also be wers on the Oshkosh flight line and the the wives attend the meetings. able to devote more time to this goal cupola atop the Red Bam. Check the Stan explained that over the years because he is now planning his retire­ January and July 1987 issues of VIN­ their chapter has stayed on friendly ment, effective October 28, 1989. TAGE AIRPLANE for details on their terms with the local General Aviation Now that he is no longer faced with efforts. Since then, Chapter 4 has District Office and the state's Depart­ the obligation of regular employment, added a weather vane to top the cupola. ment of Aeronautics. These two of­ the division hopes to see much more Activities that get the best turnout fices serve as a vast library of informa­ of him and his wife, Irene. It is our are those in which all members can tion as well as an excellent source of gain.! • 14 DECEMBER 1989 eASS IIIQ --lS An information exchange column with input from readers.

by Buck Hilbert (EAA 21, Ale 5) P.O. Box 424 Union, IL 60180

Dear Mr. Hilbert, The idea of them is great. They aviation must have a drug testing pro­ I agree 100 percent with your prac­ house electronic gear capable of spot­ gram set up so that if and when the tice of pulling the prop through all ting drug running attempts via aircraft FAA or anybody demands a drug test, compression strokes on a cold start. flying at low level. The glitch is they you're ready. I'm worried, too, Don. Having been pushed by a 215-hp were cloaked in secrecy for a while I talked with the Great Lakes region of Franklin for over 300 hours in a Re­ and, in the main, were unlighted. I the FAA and also the CAP and there public Seabee I always pull the prop made inquires of the FAA and have is some confusion as to how this will through six compression strokes on yet to receive an answer as to why they be administered and enforced. The every cold start, even if it means put­ weren't strobed or at least shown on CAP doesn't even have a plan at this ting on the hip boots. It allows me to the sectionals, etc. time. More on this later. feel and listen to the machinery under The circular says they are lighted, Here's a good one! A cassette tape the cowl. I get suspicious when some­ except for the tether cable which can from Father John Mac Gillvrary up in thing sounds or feels different. be as high as 15,000 feet. This means Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He Keep up the great column. they have a latitude of several miles at reminisced about the early Rockford the top of the box and this cable could days and the fact that his Moth and Bob Redner be anywhere below the balloon and off Miles Hawk were such fun to fly to the West Bloomfield, Michigan to the side of center. This could pose Convention each year. He would like Open replies to: a real problem to the uninitiated VFR to see them fly, better yet he'd like to Dario L. Toffenetti, EI Paso, Texas guy running along looking at the scen­ fly them again. For those of you who ery who comes face to face with one want to see them, they are in the Dario: Thanks for the circular finally of these cables. Pioneer Airport hangars in back of the telling of the tethered picket balloons. Thanks for the info, Dario. Keep the Museum. These balloons, or "aerostats" as they Amigo Airshow going! I've had all kinds of calls this past are called, are drug interdiction Another call, Don Toeppen of St. month. Some really good ones from tethered vehicles about the size of a Charles, Illinois. He's worried about people who really needed to know 747 fuselage. I see there are now four the drug testing program and the fact something. Some with sad tidings but of them tethered along the Texas­ that all commercial pilots, mechanics, most of them left me with good feel­ Mexico border and I know of a couple flight attendants, in fact anyone who ings. Keep 'em comin' guys & gals. more in Arizona. makes or earns a wage at commercial Over to you .• VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15 VINTAGE SEAPLANES by Norm Petersen

These two photos show the results of two months of repair work on the tail surfaces and hull of Grumman G-44 Widgeon, N54VT. SIN 12n. Owned by Bill Latham (EM 337242) of Manassas, Virginia, the Widgeon susfained damage while taking off across some swells during EM Oshkosh '89. Bill was able to beach the airplane before the water got too deep inside! Repairs were made to the stabilizer, elevator, fin and rudder along with a rebuild of the rear step area, jusf ahead of the tailwheel. Bill Brennand of Neenah, WI was in charge of the rebuild with help from Jack Wojahn, George Rotter and others. The completed and painted Widgeon was lifted back into the water on October 10th and flown east on October 11th by its owner, Bill Latham. This is a McKinnon conversion of the Widgeon using Lycoming GO-480 engines.

Photos by Carl Schuppel & Norm Petersen

16 DECEMBER 1989 Climbing out of the water with authority is Stinson SR-10F, NC21111, which was delivered to Pacific Alaska Airways in 1938. Powered with a 420-hp P & W 'Wasp" egine, the SR-10F was a great performer on Edo 59-5250 floats. Note oil cooler below engine and seaplane ventral fin below the toil.

From the mid-1930s comes the Northrop "Gamma" mounted on Edo JO-7080 floats. This aircraft, NR 12269, S/N2 , was used by Lincoln Ellsworth on his Antarctic Flight. Although most Gammas were powered with a 710-hp Wright Cyclone, this particular one used a 500-hp P & W Wasp engine. This was one of the very first all-metal, monocoque designs by John Northrop.

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17 by Norm Petersen Photos by Jeff Isom

18 DECEMBER 1989 An Iowa trucker gets his introduction to aviation ... in a 450 Stearman.

Few pilots will argue with the fact sonic. For airshow work, the standard his own judgment. Others may differ, that a 450-hp Stearman is a handful of of the industry is a 450 Stearman with but eventually, Doug ends up with the airplane. Even a 220 Steannan will all its smoke and noise. correct call. Perhaps this is why we all keep you on your toes. However, the How many pilots do you know have a certain admiration for such a addition of a P & W R-985 "Wasp" whose very first airplane was a 450 person. will hold the pilot's attention through­ Stearman? And to top it off, it was Douglas Kiel (EAA 329603, AlC out takeoffs and landings! With all the purchased with absolutely zero time in 13638) grew up on a farm near Fayette, bleatin' and blattin' going on up front the pilot's logbook! Unusual, yes, but Iowa, near the Wisconsin border. Of along with the torque of a Ham Stan­ impossible? No! necessity, he became quite mechani­ dard keeping your feet active on the Our hero in this story is a 35-year­ cally minded and able to fix 'most any­ rudder pedals, the sound of a throbbing old truck driver from Iowa. Doug Kiel thing that needed repair. When he was nine-cylinder engin'e is augmented by is an enterprising person in the habit a young lad of nine, he had his first the snarl of the prop tips going super­ of making logical choices - at least in airplane ride at Prairie Du Chien, Wis­ consin in - you guessed it - a Stearman! trailer and struck out on his own . In billfold, a Harley T-Shirt, going 2-3 Perhaps this 1962 experience set the four and a half years of hard work and weeks without a bath and standing in stage for an unusual course of events tenacity, the truck was paid for - in full! front of a video game!" And he adds, some 26 years later. During this time , Doug has acquired "Not all of us are like that." One nice Motorcycles held Doug Kiel's in­ a traveling companion, a miniature improvement on his Peterbilt truck is terest as he matured into a young man . Dachshund named "Chuck", who now a Doug Kiel designed hydraulically­ He presently owns five of them, in­ has over 600,000 miles on his tender operated fifth wheel that can be moved cluding a rather wild 1976 Kawasaki body! (Perhaps this explains why his forward and back to allow the truck to KZ -1185 turbo-charged drag bike that legs are so short!) Chuck rules the roost ride better, depending on the load in can only be described as a "crotch rock­ in the big Peterbilt cab, earning his the trailer. This neat system works et. " Perhaps excitement is a common keep when Doug leaves the truck for while the truck is underway or stationary. ingredient in all this young man ' s ac­ any reason. Several would-be intruders Last November, Doug read an ad tivities. Doug has made some 25 have been met at the door by the most about a Stearman for sale in Wiscon­ parachute jumps to date. Eventually, ferocious set of teeth and snarls you sin. Curious, he stopped in to see the call of the open road reached Doug can possibly imagine. None have suc­ Chuck Andreas at Neenah , WI, whose and he found himself in the trucking ceeded and some have left a trail of shop has produced some very notable business, over the road , from coast to blood to show for their efforts. aircraft including Stinson Trimotor, coast. He enjoyed the challenges of the Some time ago, Doug discovered NC I I 170, often seen at Oshkosh haul­ job, however, he felt the correct choice that a can of soup or stew fits perfectly ing passengers and another Navy N2S­ would be to own his own truck. Ap­ between the oil cooler and the engine 3 Stearman, N1066N , owned by Bill proaching his banker with the idea of of the Peterbilt. Exactly 45 miles later, Johnson of Oak Brook, Illinois that has buying a new $150,000 truck caused the soup is just the right temperature! garnered awards at Oshkosh for three the banker to suspect Doug had slipped Along with a built-in refrigerator filled consecutive years. Chuck was building a few notches in his timing belt! Even with fresh fruit, etc., Doug lives like up a 450 Stearman two-holer that Doug' s father wondered if all his ef­ a king as he travels the highways. His would have everything! Starting with forts at bringing up a smart young son clothes are neatly hung in custom built a bare airframe (from Roy Reabe's had somehow failed. The truck would cabinets in the sleeper, a sure sign of stable of airplanes in Waupun, WI) and cost more than hi s father's entire farm! a fastidious owner-operator. As Doug adding untold hours of craftsmanship Again , persistence paid off when Doug says, "Most people characterize a truck and materials, the Stearman was taking bought the big Peterbilt and reefer driver in cowboy boots, a log chain shape and would be ready for delivery

20 DECEMBER 1989 DICK HILL: STEARMAN INSTRUCTOR open cockpits! On June 4th, Doug W hen you are discarded by the air­ began dual instruction with Dick lines for being "too old," it's easy to start calmly calling the shots. As Dick says, feeling sorry for yourself and quit fly­ "Doug learns well. He has good ing. However, some folks are just the mechanical ability and handles the opposite. They have more fun flying controls smoothly, much like he drives than they ever did working for the air­ an IS-wheeler." lines! The farm strip at Dick & Jeanie Such is the situation with Dick Hill Hill's place is 1,300 feet long with 30­ (EAA 56626, AlC 629) of Harvard, foot wires on the north end! Between JIIinois, affectionately known as Mr. clearing the wires and the barn, you Jeannie Hill, due to his lovely wife have about 1,000 feet left in which to being an active pilot and a member of land! (Talk about a perfect place to the Advisory Board ofEAA's Antique! teach a farm kid how to fly a Stear­ Classic Division. Dick began his air­ man). To broaden the pupil's perspec­ line career with , tive, they flew to many neighboring which begat Republic Airlines, which to shoot landings and take offs. begat Northwest Airlines, from which Learning to add power in slow , Dick retired after 31 years of airline steady, increments so the torque from work. He was Captain on a Boeing 757 the big propeller doesn't "get" you was at retirement with over 30,000 hours one of the many skills Doug had to in his logbook. A smiling InstructOr on the right, Dick Hili, learn. Basic airwork in handling the Back in the winter of 1944, Dick with his new Steannan student, Doug K1e1. big biplane was another skill that had Hill made his solo flight in a J-3 Cub to be acquired. And most of all, respect on skis at the Streator, Illinois airport. but most importantly, set the stage for for the "beast," because if you don't He was 16 years old. By 1945, he had later years when instructors in Stear­ handle her correctly, she will bite you! logged some 30 hours and had joined mans and aircraft of similar stature Doug learned well and fast. By June the U.S. Marines, who promptly put would be sorely needed. 24th, he was ready for solo. Dick him to work as a Link Trainer Instruc­ When Doug Kiel and Chuck An­ helped get the Stearman ready for tor and a control tower operator. dreas contacted Dick about starting a flight and Doug strapped himself into Following service duty, Dick flew student from scratch in a 450 Stearman, the rear cockpit. Firing up the R-9S5, Stearman sprayers at Streator as well Dick was ready and willing. After all, he taxied out and made one of the nicer as towed banners and earned his CFI he had nearly 40 years experience as a solo flights from the little strip that rating, instructing in Stearmans and CFI and Stearmans were built like Dick had ever seen. There was much various other aircraft. This well-varied airplanes are supposed to be built ­ happiness in the air around Harvard, background led him into airline work, with two sets of wings and a couple

Cruising along at an easy 105, Doug and his passenger in the front cockpit, Joe Rohde, make a pretty scene against the patchwork quilt of a rural Wisconsin countryside. 22 DECEMBER 1989 When you spend most of your time on the road, you have to love the work. Both Doug and his sidekick, "Chuck" enjoy being "on the road," however, when the trip is over, it's fun to go flying. Note spare tire with chalk marks on it. Doug has never had one stolen! navigation . This was in preparation for the air-to-air photos and I can honestly business trip to the West Coast. When the private flight exam which Doug say that Doug handled the Stearman he returned to the airplane, a crowd of flew to Peoria, Illinois to take on Au­ like an old pro. He would tuck the big some 25 to 30 people had gathered to gust 17th. He passed with flying colors red bird into position and hold it look at the big red biplane! Doug read­ (pun intended). Meanwhile, Doug throughout the filming sequence . The ily admits it draws a crowd wherever found a hangar for the Stearman com­ sound of the R-985, just 50 feet away, he goes. He has given any number of plete with cement floor and bi-fold was much like a hibernating bear (an rides to friends and neighbors and has door for $25 a month at the Oelwein, old one!) with its low-pitched rumble. even taken his father for a ride. His Iowa airport. The airport features a When Jeff Isom , the EAA photo­ dad enjoyed the flight, except when nice grass plus a 4,000 foot grapher, would signal for a move with Doug did some hammerhead stalls! hard surface strip, just perfect for a his hand, Doug would calmly adjust After the third one, enough was new Stearman pilot. And to top it off, his position and lock on to the new enough! it 's just a short flight from Doug's spot. In all the photo missions I have So far, Doug has not taken his little father's farm, which has a grass land­ been on, I have never seen a 110 hour Dachshund for a ride in the Stearman, ing strip on it. Doug's father flies a pilot with such a steady hand on the however, he is looking for a body har­ Cessna 175 Skylark, which he has had controls as Doug Kiel. Either he learns ness that would hold the little guy in for quite a number of years. well or Dick Hill did a masterful job the cockpit! Chuck's ears are so large By the time September rolled around of teaching Doug how to fly a 450 that Doug is afraid they would flap in and Doug brought the Stearman to Stearman. Probably both. the slipstream and beat the poor dog Oshkosh for the photo session (where Now the big question - Why did he about the head! If, per chance, you these pictures were taken), he had log­ do it? "When you drive a big rig all should see a big red 450 Stearman taxi ged some 1\0 hours on the beautiful week, you don't look forward to dodg­ up one day with a smiling pilot with bird and had nary a scratch to show on ing traffic on the weekends," says bugs on his teeth in the rear cockpit the bottom of the wingtips! (Every time Doug. He would much rather crank up and a funny looking pilot in the front he would land, some of his so-called the Stearman and go flying among the cockpit with a rather long , brown nose friends would run out and scrutinize rich farm country, waving to the farm­ and a small helmet holding his ears the underside of the wings , looking for ers as he flies past. One day he landed down, you wiIJ have the fun of meeting scrapes.) I was privileged to fly the in a hayfield behind a truck stop near two of aviation's finest - Doug Kiel photo plane (90 hp J-3 on floats) for Mauston, Wisconsin to check on a and his sidekick, Chuck . • VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23 The deHavilland Moth Club of England's -..-.~-

Strathallan Museum airstrip in Scotland. are very apt to do. For 1989 , the Moth Club's tireless The rally briefing founder (ex-editor of Popular Flying, which followed the Stuart McKay) had arranged a combi­ dinner thus did nation of both events - running over not get underway three days and including a new Famous until somewhat Grouse Rally , again sponsored by after midnight ­ Matthew Gloag, and ending at Woburn the prospect of Abbey for the traditional annual meeting. the first takeoff at Your correspondents, having been 09:00 local (to­ "Moth less" at the time of the '79 gether with the Grouse were determined not to miss results of liberal out this time, and completed and sub­ applications of the mitted their entry for the '89 gathering Famous Grouse it­ as soon as details were published. self) were already Friday 18th August saw us touching beginning to make down at the home of the Shuttleworth some of the crews Mavis Parker with her Tiger Moth G-BJZF proudly displaying-the Collection at Old Warden in our faith­ a little queazy! famous Grouse Rally emblem on the rudder. ful 'ZF to join the growing number of Breakfast and de Havilland aeroplanes gathering detail briefing got underway from a way 22 and then onto the first leg of a there in preparation for the rally start somewhat unearthly 06:30 on Saturday southwesterly heading. the following day. Registration of morning, and it is a tribute to the At this point it is appropriate to ex­ competing crews and scrutineering of strength of the human constitution that plain the nature of the Rally itself. The the aircraft took place throughout the the first aircraft away, Brian Woodford's day's flying was divided into two main day, and ensured that everything was Rapide G-ACZE piloted by Peter Har­ competitive stages. The first, via eight in place for the early start of the com­ rison rolled across the Old Warden turf legs, from Old Warden to Hucknall , petition the following morning. under the power of her Gipsy Queens and the second, also with eight legs, All competing crews were accom­ precisely on the stroke of 09:00. from Hucknall to the Imperial War modated in the Stevenage Novotel, The departure sequence was by Museum airfield at Duxford. Each from whence travelling the short dis­ drawn position within the groups of stage was timed and each leg was co­ tance to Knebworth House for the eve­ like machines in descending order of vered by a number of questions which of-rally dinner was easily ac­ speed. Yours truly's, being the first could be correctly answered by observ­ complished. Said dinner, together with away in the 52-strong Tiger Moth ing ground features close to the tracks the appropriate speeches, took a little group, thus left the grid upon the drop to be flown . The questions for the first longer than planned as these occasions of the starter's flag at 09: 18 via Run- stage were only handed to the crews as they lined up for the takeoff, and those for the second stage were available The deHavilland Moth Club of England around half an hour before the after­ noon departure. The accompanying article was origi­ the Shuttleworth Collection, and is Picture the scene then as your repor­ nally written for publication in the house some 15 miles northeast of Woburn. ters climbed out on the first leg of journal of the UK Popular Flying As­ Hucknall airfield is between the towns Stage One, attempting to establish an sociation. Some of the references may of Nottingham and Derby, and is ap­ accurate heading and track, and unfold not be familiar to non-UK readers, and proximately 140 miles north of Lon­ the four-page question sheet in the 60­ these brief notes will help clarify some don. Hucknall was for many years knot slipstream! As is usually the case, points. flight test airfield for Rolls Royce, and once the initial panic had subsided a The UK based de Havilland Moth is now operated by the appropriately grip was established on the problem Club was founded by Stuart McKay in named Merlin Flying Club. and a routine established. Most ques­ 1975 and now has some 2,000 mem­ Duxford is famous as the location of tions made sense and answers were re­ bers worldwide. The club holds regular the Imperial War Museum's aircraft corded, although a couple at least were flying events in the UK, the best collection, and is an airfield originally not tied up to definite ground features. known of which is the series of annual I. commissioned during World War Two hours of bumpy flying and con­ meetings in the grounds of Woburn During World War II Duxford was the stand head swivelling made the appear­ Abbey in Bedfordshire. base of Douglas Bader's "big wing" of ance of Hucknall-on-the-nose a very Woburn Abbey is the ancestral Hurricane fighters with their crucial welcome sight - the eagerly awaited home of the Dukes of Bedford , situated role in the Battle of Britain in 1940. cold drinks after landing barely touch­ 45 miles north of London, and must be The "Famous Grouse" Moth Rally ing the sides! one of the most beautiful settings for a was sponsored by Matthew Gloag and For the next hour and a half or so flying event anywhere in the world. Son, the Perthshire, Scotland based Hucknall was a melee of arriving The house itself dates from the 17th distillers. Matthew Gloag and Son was Moths and various PFA types winging century and is surrounded by an exten­ founded in 1800, and their "Famous in to the coincident strut Fly-in. The sive deer park with medieval forest and Grouse" Scotch Whisky is well-known local PFAers are to be complimented ornamental lakes. throughout the world. on feeding and watering the resultant Old Warden is the home airfield of hordes so effecti vel y. 26 DECEMBER 1989 On the stroke of 13:00 hrs. local the led us to question "special visitor" which had been mys­ our track keeping teriously listed on the day 's prog­ - however the ramme materalised in the Hucknall cir­ ground and map cuit in the form of British Aerospace's seemed to coin­ preserved DH98 Mosquito, which cide at all times gave a spirited and widely appreciated so we judged all display. to be well. The lunch time respite was over all The majority of too soon and the crews were to be seen clues were again hunched over their maps flight plan­ identified and ning Stage Two from the details which shortly after 15:30 were released at 13:30. Again, pre­ Duxford's broad cisely at allotted time, on the dot of acres hove into 14:00, the Rapide rolled over view. "Famous Hucknall's grass - the show was back Grouse" hospital­ The Rally's largest entrant, Brian Woodford's immaculate DH89A on the road! Whereas the morning's ity was soon well Dragon Rapide G-ACZE. departure had been at one-minute inter­ underway with vals, 30 second gaps now applied. crews and invited guests taking a sub­ Henlow for the night-stop. 'ZF's throttle thus went forward at stantial tea in the warm afternoon sun­ Within a space of 45 minutes or so 14:07.00 and course set shortly after­ shine. Entertainment (apart from the the entire fleet of 70-plus aircraft were wards to the east, the Fenlands, thence continuing arrivals in the fresh cross­ down and neatly parked in front of Dux(ord and tea! wind!) was provided firstly by a fly Henlow's westerly hangars, with the The eight legs of Stage 2, again ac­ past by four USAF A-lOs, then de H smoke from the barbeque already drift­ complished by numerous questions Moth Club's own Diamond Nine Tiger ing skywards. seemed a little less taxing than the Moth formation display team led by After the rigours of the day, nothing morning's efforts (probably a matter of Charles Shea-Simmonss. To the basic could have been more pleasant on a familiarity with the task) although the Diamond formation had been added, perfect warm summer evening than to turbulence had worsened with some for '89, a "feathered arrow" and a enjoy the barbeque , a little liquid re­ particularly strong thermal bumps giv­ spectacular finale "break" before freshment, the strains of a jazz band ing a ride somewhat similar to the big flypast and stream landing. The team and the firework display as darkness dipper. received well deserved applause. fell. For some strange reason the skies The final flight of the day - in de­ Thoughts of a Sunday morning lie-in seemed to resemble the oft read ac­ licious calm air and with nothing to do had already been dispelled by the pro­ counts of World War I dogfighting ­ except admire the late summer coun­ gramme which announced another full of aeroplanes one minute and tryside of Cambridgeshire and Bed­ 06:30 start for breakfast and briefing, empty the next. This odd phenomenon fordshire roll by was across to R .A.F . followed by a dash up the A I highway

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27 in two double-decker buses filled with Two overseas entrants for the Rally. DH60 Gypsy Moth VH-AFN from the USA via Holland assorted Mothists. and Tiger Moth F-8GCS from France. Henlow takeoffs commenced from 09:00 and the task ahead included a direct flight to overhead Woburn fol­ lowed by a short four-leg additional navigation exercise around Wing, Lit­ tle Horwood , Milton Keynes, and back Moths galore decorate the Woburn Parkland on a glorious English to Woburn for landing. The objective summer Sunday. was to find some special ground mar­ kers and plot their positions on copies of the appropriate O/S map. Apart from an initial marker on the Woburn strip, your intrepid scribes could find nothing specific at all on any of the tracks flown (we were not alone in this deficiency). The Woburn circuit by this time was alive with aircraft and after three go­ arounds to avoid conflicting traffic we were eventually safely on the ground and marshalled to our parking space. The Woburn scene has to be experi­ enced to be appreciated, but the combi­ nation of blue skies and cumulus clouds (a feature of the Summer of '89), bright sunshine, rolling parkland with sparkling lakes, the Woburn house itself and, of course, more than 80 vintage aeroplanes caused a few neckprickles in all but the most unsen­ timental of aviation buffs. A splendid lunch was enjoyed, again courtesy of that famous game-bird, and the afternoon's flying entertainment commenced. This started with another excellent show by the Diamond Nin­ ers, although they spectacularly opened with another seven friends to provide a memorable Diamond 16 pass; (imagine if you will the rumble of 16 Gipsy Majors - ah! de Havil­ land, deH, deH , deH ...... !) 28 DECEMBER 1989 Rally contestants assemble at Duxford at the end of the main competitive stages. The David Jackson and Len Jeffries aerobatic competitions followed with an over subscribed entry list this year. Standards were very high . Next on the agenda was a Gipsy Moth "race" - the rules for which were totally unclear - both to com­ petitors and audience. A deH Cavalcade followed, with a sequential fly past by deH 60 Cirrus Moth, 60G and 60M Gipsy Moths, 80 Puss Moth, 82 Tiger Moth , 83 Fox Moth, 85 Leopard Moth , 87 Hornet Moth , 89 Rapide and 90 Dragonfly ­ followed by the metal DHC I Chip­ munk , DHC2 Beaver and the perfectly timed non-landing DH 104 Dove. The final event was a mass parachute drop from five Tigers - all the jumpers landing on or close to the mark - a commendable effort in the stiff southwesterly breeze by then blowing. The Woburn finale , as ever, is the prize-giving which was in the hands of Stuart McKay, the Marquess of Tavis­ tock's son Lord Howland, and Matthew Gload himself of the said Fa­ mous Grouse distillers. A little sadly, at the end of three days of great fun in the companionship of friendly aviators, we climbed 'ZF clear of Woburn and pointed her north­ west for SyweJI. Our thanks, and those of the many , many Moth Club members and friends who enjoyed three marvellous days go to Stuart and Miranda McKay for mak­ ing it all happen, and of course to Matthew GJoag and the Tavistock fam­ ily of Woburn for their substantial con­ tribution and ongoing support . •

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

The following is a partial listing of new members who have joined the EAA Antique/Classic Division (through May 3, 1989). We are honored to welcome them into the organization whose members' common interest is vintage aircraft. Succeeding issues of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE will contain additional listings of new members.

Paul M. Jablonski John W. Linse Carlene A. Neeley Greenwood, Indiana Fairbanks, Alaska Huntsville, Alabama

Kenneth w. Jerolaman Robert G. Lockhart Ferreira Pinto Neto Bernardsville, New Jersey Chester, Illinois Sao Paulo, Brazil

Cliff W. Johnston C. F. McCall, Jr. Don Newquist Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Fort Worth , Texas West Des Moines, Iowa

F. Ben Jones Robert E. McKay Frank Novotny Katy, Texas Iselin , New Jersey Garfield Heights, Ohio

Philip J. Kemp Leslie D. Meggers Leo Nunnink Portland, Maine Tarpon Springs, Florida St. Marys, Georgia

George W. Kennedy Glendon L. Merritt Jeffery Oberg Decatur, Georgia Cumberland, Maryland Lansing, Michigan

Harold J. Killian H. R. Metzler Martin Oberkirch Appleton, Wisconsin Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada Ulster Park, New York

Martin S. Kiripolsky Alfred E. Meyer Robert E. Osborne Orlando, Florida Panacea, Florida Coxs Creek, Kentucky

Dennis H. Kirkwood Herbert G. Miller Allan B. Paige Fenton, Michigan Ridgeley , West Virginia Weston, Ontario, Canada

William S. Kloepfer Billy K. Mills Randall E. Patterson Fort Bidwell, California Bay Minette, Alabama Palm Coast, Florida

Douglas J. Knab Mark Minor Clyde T. Peer Houston, Texas Chesapeake, Virginia La Habra, California

Rodney P. Kroenlein James E. Mitchell Robert F. Pfaff Moweaqua, Illinois Safford, Arizona Johns Island, South Carolina

Robret F. Langham Andrew C. Moffat David Plata Madison Heights, Michigan Grand Junction, Colorado Gaithersburg, Maryland

J. Rodney Lawrence Francisco Corral Monsalve Barbara P. Pobuk Fort Worth, Texas Valparaiso, Chile Gardner, Massachusetts

Charles F. Lewis Robin A. Moore Jack Pollack Meridianville, Alabama Brunswick, Maine Scottsdale, Arizona

James Link Quentin W. Morgan David W. Powers Greenville, North Carolina Lehigh Acres, Florida Inverness, Florida

James A. Linn Gail S. Needham Jeffrey Lee Pulver Tuscon, Arizona Knoxville, Tennessee Great Neck, New York 30 DECEMBER 1989 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION

EAA Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc. is $30.00 Gary R. Purcell Vernon B. Stewart for one year, including 12 issues of Eldersburg, Maryland Miami, Florida Sport A viation. Junior Membership (under 19 years of age) is available at $18.00 annually. Family Member· Charles A. Quit Craig J. Stone ship is available for an additional South Huntington, New York Renton, Washington $10.00 annually.

Lindsay Raley Bob L. Stroup ANTIQUE/CLASSICS Winter Haven, Florida Yuma , Arizona EAA Member - $18.00. Includes one year membership in EAA An­ Ron L. Randel Gary Thomas tique-Classic Division, 12 monthly Albuquerque, New Mexico issues of The Vintage Airplane and APO , New York, New York membership card. Applicant must be a current EAA member and must Philip Edward Rasmussen Gary D. Thomson give EAA membership number. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Beoley, W orcestershire, England Non-EAA Member - $28.00. In­ Horace L. Riggs, Jr. cludes one year membership in the Ernest Tidlund EAA Antique-Classic Division, 12 Mulberry, Florida Shutesbury, Massachusetts monthly issues of The Vintage Air­ plane, one year membership in the EAA and separate membership Paul G. Ritchie Michael F. Vaisey Contoocook, New Hampshire cards. Sport Aviation not included. Hempstead, Herts, England

Raphael Roethle M. D. Waldinger lAC Denmark, Wisconsin Membership in the International Randolph, New Jersey Aerobatic Club, Inc. is $25.00 an­ Thomas Rowland nually which includes 12 issues of Jeffrey C. Warren Sport Aerobatics. All lAC members Combermer, Ontario, Canada Taylors, South Carolina are required to be members of EAA. David M. Sakers Charles E. Webb Goldsboro, Maryland WARBIRDS Fort Worth , Texas Membership in the Warbirds of America, Inc. is $25.00 per year, James K. Schaefer which includes a subscription to West Palm Beach , Florida Elmer Weemer Warbirds. Warbird members are Urbana, Illinois required to be members of EAA. Earl W. Schraer Pevely, Missoui Dwight Weiss EAA EXPERIMENTER Grass Valley, California EAA membership and EAA EXPERI­ William P. Selby MENTER magazine is available for $28.00 per year (Sport Aviation not Little Rock , Arkansas Jack R. West Beggs, Oklahoma included). Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER Robert C. Sellers for $18.00 per year. Penndel , Pennsylvania Richard A. White Vero Beach, Florida FOREIGN Jack Singletary MEMBERSHIPS Aurora, Missouri John David Whitener Please submit your remittance with Hickory , North Carolina a check or draft drawn on a United George T. Smith, Sr. States bank payable in United States dollars. Visalia, California Jeffrey H. Whitesell Des Moines , Washington Ronald C. Smith Make checks payable to EAA or the Solon, Ohio Jonathan Fred Williams division in which membership is Jacksonville, Alabama desired. Address all letters to EAA or the particular division at the fol­ Peter Stears lowing address: David E. Wirey High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, EAA AVIATION CENTER England Findlay, Illinois OSHKOSH, WI 54903-3086 PHONE (414) 426-4800 Doug Steen Maurice A. Yarter OFFICE HOURS: Bethesda, Maryland San Antonio, Texas 8:15-5:00 MON.-FRI.

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31 Where The Sellers and Buyers Meet... 25¢ per word, $5.00 minimum charge. Send your ad to The Vintage Trader, EAA Aviation Center Oshkosh, WI 54903-2591. AN INVITATION AIRCRAFT: Replica 213 scale Jenny - 2 place, 4130. Outper­ TO PARTICIPATE WITH forms the original. Inexpensive and fast to build ­ flown to Oshkosh twice. Plans - $75.00, video ­ $25.00 , info - $1.00. Wiley, P.O. Box 6366, THE SANTA MONICA Longmont, CO 80502. (12-3)

MUSEUM OF FLVING Rearwin - 1940 Skyranger. Good original condi­ tion, ferryable but needs annual. $6,500 OBO, 319/ IN 679-2324. (12-2) (2) C-3 Aeronca Razorbacks - 1931 and 1934. THE WORLD'S LARGEST Package includes extra engine and spares. Fuse­ lage, wing spars and extra props. Museum quality! AUCTION $30,000 firm! No tire kickers, collect calls or pen pals, please! E.E. "Buck" H~bert , P.O. Box 424, OF CLASSIC AIRCRAFT Union, IL 60180-0424. MISCELLANEOUS: & MEMORABILIA Super Cub PA18 fuselages repaired or rebuilt - in precision master fixtures. All makes of tube assemblies or fuselages repaired or fabricated new. J. E. Soares Inc., 7093 Dry Creek Road , Bel­ grade, Montana 59714, 406/388-6069, Repair Sta­ tion 065-21 . (C/12-89)

1910-1950 Original aviation items for sale - in­ struments, wood propellers, helmets, goggles, We are currently accepting manuals, 44-page catalog airmailed, $5.00. Jon Al­ drich, Box 706, Airport, Groveland, CA 95321 , 209/ applications for entries to be 962-6121 . (c-2190) sold at this unprecedented event Will Share my treasure of aircraft parts! - 24­ year collection with continuous additions . . and in Spring of 1990. still buying ... for all types 01 aircraft. Tell me what you need! Air Salvage of Arkansas, Rt. 1, Box 8020, Mena, Arkansas 71953, phone 501 /394­ 1022 any1ime. (c-3/90) Select items will Monocoupe, Rearwin, Culver - Gee Bee's, Hall, be featured in a Chester, etc. Catalog/News - $3.00. Refundable. "Meticulous model PLANS" by Vern Clements, 308 four-color auction catalogue Palo Alto, Caldwell, 1083605. (12-3) and receive international JN4-D Memorabilia - "Jenny Mail" collector cachets, actually flown in Jenny to Day and Osh, media exposure. along with T-shirts, pins, posters, etc. Send SASE for catalog/pricing. Virginia Aviation Co., R.D. 5, Box 294, Warrenton, VA 22186. (c-5/90) For information Gipsy Major Tiger Moth - parts, aircraft and air­ boat builders supplies. Pusher propellers, informa­ call John Hanley tional brochure, $5.40 postpaid. Provairco, Honey Harbour, Ontario, Canada POE 1EO, 7051756­ at 1-800-AIR-1004 2664. (1 /1-90) or 213-392-6392 PLANS: POBER PIXIE - VW powered parasol- unlimited in California in low-cost pleasure flying . Big , roomy cockpit for the over six foot pilot. VW power insures hard to 8AM to 5PM PST beat 3 V2 gph at cruise setting. 15 large instruction sheets. Plans - $60.00. Info Pack - $5.00. Send 2772 Donald Douglas Loop North check or money order to: ACRO SPORT, INC., Box 462, Hales Corners, WI 53130. 414/529-2609. Santa Monica. California 90405 ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of Facsimile No. 213-452-1933 unlimited aerobatics. 23 sheets of clear, easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical draw­ ings, photos and exploded views. Complete parts and materials list. Full size wing drawings. Plans plus 139 page Builder'S Manual - $60.00. Info Pack - $5.00. Super Aero Sport Wing Drawing ­ $15.00. The Technique of Aircraft Building ­ $12.00 plus $2.50 postage. Send check or money order to: ACRO SPORT, INC., Box 462, Hales Corners, WI 53130. 414/529-2609.

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34 DECEMBER 1989 by George Hardie Jr.

'The September Mystery Plane is the Mercury S-\ built and owned by Mercury Aircraft in the 1934-1935 era. The plane was designed and flown by Harvey Mummert in races at Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. The plane has recently been returned to Ham­ mondsport from Detroit, is in mint condition and will be on exhibit at the Glenn H. Curtiss Aircraft Museum in Hammondsport starting next spring. We sold this plane in 1949 and, of course, are very pleased to have it re­ turned after almost 40 years. The en­ closed photo was taken in September In the long history of airplane de­ showed up in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. 1989." Other answers were received sign, many neat little biplanes have ap­ Recently it has been reported that it from Charley Hayes,Park Forest, IL; peared. This one was considered by will be returned to Hammondsport to W. E. Doherty, Director, Glenn Cur­ both the military and civilian markets be on exhibit in the Glenn CUI1iss tiss Museum, Hammondsport; Ed but was passed over. The photo is from Museum there.-' Tice, Bedford, TX; Emil Strasser, the EAA archives, date and location Chairman of the Board of Mercury Hawthorne, CA; and Herbert deBruyn, not given. Answers will be published Aircraft, J.F. Meade, Jr. writes: Bellevue, WA . • in the March 1990 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE. Deadline for that issue is January 10 , 1990. Jack McRae of Huntington Station, New York had the answer to the Mys­ tery Plane for September, 1989. He writes: "The September Mystery Plane is the Mercury S-I White Racer, registra­ tion X-13223, designed by Harvey Mummert in 1931 and built by Mer­ cury Aicraft, Inc . in Hammondsport, New York. " It was powered by a supercharged Cirrus engine of 110 hp and was flown by Mummert in the 1932 Chicago Air Races and in numerous local air shows in the 1930s. The airplane was unusual for its all-steel-tube geodetic construc­ tion and fully retractable landing gear. "In about 1956 it was sold to George Tatich of Endicott, New York who re­ covered it and installed a Cessna land­ ing gear. It was cracked up as the result of a ground loop, and a few years later

Mercury 5-1 VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35