Part III: The First One Thousand And One

•• Following is the third and final case, as was true of the other early the 6th of June, 1934," King Michael "installment" of brief statements and members, space limitations prevented continued. That first flight, he said, was infonnation on AOPA members who publication of all the material and in• in "an old Junkers 52 which had been were among the first 1,001 persons to formation supplied to The PILOT. modified to take a Hispano-Suiza en• join the Association in 1939, the year Not included in King Michael's state• gine." In addition to his current ac• of the organization's founding. Earlier ment, which follows, is a revealing pas• tivities related below, King Michael re• statements and infonnation on mem• sage in his letter to AOPA which read, ported he now is associated with an bers of this select group who are still "I have always been interested in avia• unnamed brokerage firm in New York. active in AOPA affairs appeared in the tion, since my early teens, but was not Like several of his counterparts in May and June issues of The PILOT. allowed to get any nearer to flying than AOPA's first 1,001, the King's business King Michael of Roumania (AOP A sitting in the cockpit at first. activities and other obligations have 554) is one of the early members fea• "They finally let me taxi to the prevented him from flying as much as tured this month. Unfortunately, in his hangar, and my very first flight was on he would like. "I am afraid that I have

Gypsy Moths, German Junkers, Tri• Motor Fords, and other classics of the 1930s felt the loving hands of AOPA's earliest members and figured prominently in their lives

RUSSELL MILLER (AOPA 556)

LOUIS SCHWITZER, JR. FRED HAMMERSTAD (AOPA 640) HUBBARD PHELPS (AOPA 646) (AOPA 623)

DONALD HOOD (AOPA 777) J. A. WATERMAN (AOPA SOO) PATRICIA T. GLADNEY (AOPA S07) LLOYD O. YOST (AOPA 811) STANLEY W. KECK (AOPA 833)

J. V. CRAWFORD (AOPA 895) C. B. SMITH, JR. (AOPA 899) MEARES HARRISS, JR. (AOPA 906) DR. P. W. MALONE (AOPA 929) O. 1. MILLER (AOPA 930)

60 THE AOPA PILOT I JULY 1969 not totaled an awful lot of hours," he from time to time, a couple of Bonanzas only some time after he became King wrote. "However, I am able to keep up and a Grumman Widgeon. At the pres• that he managed to take lessons "on the to date with aviation matters through ent time, he is a partner in a small sly," as he puts it. He soloed in a The PILOT, which I enjoy very much aircraft leasing company and flies a Su• Klemm 35. "From then onwards, I was each month." per Widgeon and a Cessna 310. Before able to fly quite regularly, and in quite With sincere apologies to King joining the Naval Air Corps in World a variety of planes, from the Klemm to Michael and all members of the Asso• War II, Dunn was a barnstormer, flight the old Lockheed 10 Electra, Junkers ciation for having to capsulize informa• and instrument instructor, and test pi• 52, and Focke-Wulf 58. In 1945 tion on the early members, it is hoped lot. He is now also a director of Flight [Roumania had joined the allies the this series stimulates the "old timers" Service, Inc., largest fixed-base opera• year before], the Russians in Rou• to renew acquaintanceships if they have tion at Hancock Airport at Syracuse. mania gave me two P.O.2 observation been sidetracked over the years. It also Says Dunn: "A couple of years ago we planes of very old design-about 1927, is hoped the series of statements provides built a new Chevrolet dealership which if I am not mistaken. Then, in August newer members and nonmember pilots has a helicopter pad on the roof, and at 1946, I was able to buy a Beech 18 (AT• who read The PILOT with additional in• that time I got a helicopter rating. I find 7) from the RAF, who had it as lend• formation about the "old days."-Ed. helicopters very versatile and a lot of lease from the United States. Mter this, fun, but I will still take my Super Wid• I got a Fieseler Storch (Fi-156), built geon." in Roumania, with which I had the William 8. Dunn (AOPA 551), Syracuse, greatest of fun. It was somewhat like N.Y. As a Chevrolet dealer in Syracuse, King Michael of Roumania (AOPA 554), driving a Jeep. You could land it prac• William Dunn admits his primary inter• Geneva, Switzerland. Despite his strong tically anywhere. There was one inci• est is the automobile, but he has kept attraction to planes, young Michael was dent when I got buzzed by two Russian up his interest in aviation, owning, never permitted to take up flying. It was MIGs, and I managed to get rid of them

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1...•..., LORNE C. GOULOING (AOPA 5S0) JOHN P. LOWE (AOPA 593) MILTON V. SM ITH (AOPA 600) DR. B. C. SHACKFORO LEO J. SCHEBERLE (AOPA 614) (AOPA 613)

SUMNER GERARO (AOPA 70s) JOHN ABIUSO (AOPA 714) J. L. GRESHAM (AOPA 736) JOHN L. HOLMES (AOPA 750)

GEORGE E. VORDENBAUM ZACK "SMILlN' JACK" MOSLEY JOHN S. BROOME (AOPA 865) WALOO F. FIELD (AOPA 878) (AOPA 845) (AOPA 849)

ROLLIN R. CLARKE (AOPA 931) A. G. BARONE, SR. (AOPA 982) J. E. MARTANOVIC (AOPA 983) W. B. HEILIG (AOPA 984) W. H. BURKHALTER (AOPA 1001)

61 by going under telephone wires and ing Republic amphibian Sea bees, keeping there until they could not pos• coast to coast. I developed such a weak• sibly keep with me any longer." King ness for the Seabee that 1 owned three Michael abdicated in 1947. He con• over the next 15 years." In 1947, Lowe tinued to fly a variety of planes while went with the overseas division of Cen• living in Switzerland, and in 1956 tral Motors Corporation, retiring last joined the Lear, Inc., office in Switzer• year. He is now looking forward to his land, which closed after two years of 14th airplane! operation. "My job was testing all in• stallations made by Lear of radios and Milton V. Smith (AOPA 600), Portland, autopilots, and also flying the execu• Me. Milt Smith has owned and operated tives around Europe," he writes. "In Northeast Airways, Inc., at Portland 1959 I started an electronics firm with Municipal Airport, since 1934 when the a team from the Lear time. We are still airport was nothing but a gravel strip in business, going strong." put down by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). He was also a Russell Miller (AOPA 556), Goshen, Ind. dispatcher for the and Maine Russell Miller's wife, daughter, and son• Railroad's Central Vermont Airways, an in-law are all pilots and AOPA operation that flew Stinson Tri-Motors members, so of his aviation career he between Boston and major cities in can say, "1 have had much help and un• Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. derstanding from my family. My flying Smith gave up the dispatcher's job when career has spanned what I believe to be his own business picked up momentum. the greatest years in aviation history• The airport boomed. During the war, it from the 1930s to the present time. 1 was turned over to military traffic exclu• have had the privilege of flying most sively, and Smith acted as manager. He models of aircraft, from the Aeronca fondly remembers one "takeoff" by 15 C-3, OX-5 Eaglerocks, Ford Tri-Motors, planes that had been diverted to the air• etc., up through some of the most mod• port by fog from the aircraft carrier ern executive aircraft. I also had the Wasp. The ship suddenly received or• good fortune to help pioneer rotorcraft ders to sail and, weather notwithstand• operations in this part of the country• ing, the aircraft had to be on board, The both helicopter and gyroplane." Since pilots got into their cockpits, started his release from the U.S. Air Force, their engines, folded their wings, and Miller has been owner of a fixed-base taxied to the wharf to be towed by operation at Goshen Municipal Airport. barge to the carrier. Lorue C. Goulding (AOPA 580), Depew, Bartlett C. Shackford, M.D. (AOPA 613), N.Y. Lorne Goulding was majoring in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Dr. Shackford commercial art at the Art Institute of says he's always tried to operate with Buffalo when he started to fly. He the idea of becoming one of the oldest picked up his flying credentials and by rather than boldest pilots, and at 731J2 1941 was copilot for Delta Airlines, years, he is still looking ahead to quali• flying Douglas DC-3s and Lockheed fying. The Shackford airplane now is a Electras. The next year he was pro• fully IFR-equipped 1954 Bonanza 35-E moted to captain. "Two years after which he flies from Torrance, Calif., the war, a new air freight company was with his wife on pleasure trips about formed in Buffalo. I accepted the posi• California and adjacent states. Dr. tion of chief pilot. It was a very ambi• Shackford calls himself "semi-retired," tious organization, with two C-47s, five working mornings as pathologist for a captains, and five copilots. We had air Long Beach medical clinic. routes set up to various cities through• out the eastern United States. After two Leo J. Scheberle (AOPA 614), , years, the company went bankrupt." Be• Colo. "I have been active in many phas• fore long, the luster of the flying adven• es of aviation since joining AOPA in ture had faded, and in 1955 Goulding 1939 as a student pilot. During the decided to settle down as a flight in• 1940s, flight instructional activities structor and artist. His flying logs con• kept me busy as CPT instructor, then tain over 23,000 hours, and since 1955 later as multi-engine instructor in AT-9s he's created over 125 oil paintings. and B-25s. After the war, there was more instructing; charter flying; Reserve John P. Lowe (AOPA 593), Stamford, Air Force (retiring from the Air Force Conn. "When the war ended," John Reserve as lieutenant colonel), flying B• Lowe recalls, "I was coaxed into crop 25s, C-47s and T-33s. During the past dusting in Louisiana and Arkansas, 15 years, 1 have been in executive flying flying Fleet and Travel Air dusters. We and presently am flying for a Colorado had no masks, and when I picked up an electric and gas utilities company. Our overdose of calcium arsenate, I switched present equipment includes a King Air, to flying stranded tourists from Miami Super-IS Beech, and FH-llOO helicop• to New York, using a 10-place Vultee ter." and a 'Bamboo Bomber.' Shortly there• after, I received an offer from Bluegrass J. R. Orgain, Jr. (AOPA 620), Alberta, Airlines, a Kentucky scheduled carrier. I Va. "For the past 20 years I have kept recall with pleasure 'trading' copilot the private pilot's license up to date and time for mint juleps with our most dis• fly in my real estate sales and appraisal tinguished passenger, the late Alben work, generally in a 150 h.p. Super Cub Barkley, then U.S. Senator, at his Padu• for low-level pictures and close exami• cah home, my overnight stop. Bluegrass nation of farm and wooded land," Bob folded, and I ferried airplanes, includ- Orgain reports. The day after Pearl Har- bor, Orgain, who had over 600 hours in Hubbard Phelps (AOPA 646), Westerly, a J-2 Cub, went to the city to enlist for R.I. The contagious enthusiasm of flying duty. "I was deflated promptly," Alfred L. Wolf (AOPA 5) for AOPA at he says, "when tough recruiting ser• Wings Field in Ambler, Pa., brought geants of the Marines, Navy and Air Hubbard Phelps into the organization. Force informed me that 'specs on a He says, "As many private pilots will re• runt' disqualified one for flying." An call, back then it was pretty much a A&E course and factory schooling in 'do-it-yourself' program as to informa• aircraft carburetors prepared Orgain for tion on regulations, insurance, credit World War II duty. He was to travel (who had any?), legal matters, etc. To• 1,000 miles a week, troubleshooting air• day, it is a good feeling to know that an craft carburetors at U.S. and R.A.F. association such as ours speaks for the B-24 bases in Britain. The R.A.F. always private pilot's interest. As I travel a had planes for his travel, but when great deal, it has made my work a lot buzz bombs seemed tame, those mis• easier through the many services of• sion-tired pilots that he drew always fered." Phelps graduated 34 years ago seemed "to love wild flying for kicks• from the Boeing School of Aeronautics rolls in a Halifax bomber while flying at Oakland, Calif. He is owner of at treetop level, etc." That was his war. H. Phelps Photo Services, WesteHy, R.I., a company dealing in aerial, industrial, Louis Schwitzer, Jr. (AOPA 623), commercial and television new!? photog• Carmel, Ind. Before retiring, Louis raphy. Schwitzer was president of the Indian• apolis-based Schwitzer Corporation, Carl H. Ingwer, Jr. (AOPA 673), Tucson, manufacturers of engine components Ariz. "My flying started in 1937 when I such as cooling fans, pumps, seals, su• soloed a Cub and received my pilot's li• perchargers, turbos, and crankshaft cense in a Warner Fleet. In the next few dampers for many of the principal en• years, I managed to fly almost every• gine and vehicle builders in the United thing, from C-2 Aeroncas and OX Robins States. "We used airplanes in our busi• to Howards and D-17s. My favorites in ness, starting in 1927 with chartering, those days were Monocoupes and Fair• until 1934 when we started operating child 24s." Ingwer was drafted in 1941 and flying our own ... Over these many and transferred to the Army Air Corps years, we have owned three Waco Cus• in 1942. He had qualified as airplane tom Cabins, four T-50 Cessna twins, an commander on B-29s when separated S-39 Sikorsky amphibian, three Model from the service in late 1945. After 18 Twin Beechcraft, and a Grumman World War II, Ingwer did little flying Widgeon which we finally converted until his company acquired a 560 Aero with 270 h.p. engines, metalizing, etc. Commander in 1955. He took the This ship was my personal favorite ... Commander with him when he sold his business interests in 1958 and moved Since retiring from my business, I ..,' bought a Cessna Sky hawk for my son, from to Tucson. "In 1960," later a Skylane, and now, for my per• Ingwer told The PILOT, "I converted a sonal use, a Super Skymaster which I PBY to fly around the world. Although use for pleasure and farm business." those plans failed to materialize, my Schwitzer has a 3,500-foot strip and family and I enjoyed a number of trips hangar on his Indianapolis cattle and to Canada (including Great Bear Lake), horse farm. From spring to fall, he to Alaska, and into Mexico. In 1962, I keeps his airplane there; however, the again became active in business, buying Skymaster goes along in winter to the Mercury Aviation Corporation, an FBO - Schwitzers' Florida home. in Phoenix and Tucson. Five years later I retired for the second time to devote Fred Hammerstad (AOPA 640), Yakima, more time to my ranching interests. Wash. Fred Hammerstad began flying a Flying is still my first love, and I man• Cub in 1937 on what he calls a "15-min• age to stay current in the family Grand utes-when-I-could-afford-it basis." At the Commander, which we have owned for outbreak of World War II, he joined the the past five years. My wife is also a Air Corps and served four years overseas rated pilot, and we spend a lot of time with the Eighth Air Force as a flight en• flying to Mexico and Baja California for gineer and crew chief. At present, Ham• deep-sea fishing." merstad is a partner in United Builders of , Inc., a construction Sumner Gerard (AOPA 705), New York, company which builds houses and N.Y. "My first license was an English 'A' apartments in a three-state area. In certificate which requested military and 1957, Hammerstad found it was becom• civilian authorities to render assistance, ing hard to manage so large an area in eight languages including Turkish. It effectively by automobile, so the firm was obtained 30 years ago in a de Hav• bought its first airplane, a Tri-Pacer. In illand Gypsy Moth, which had a top 1963, the company moved up to a Co• speed of 80 m.p.h., stalled at 40, and manche 180 and, in 1966, to a Co• didn't have a starter, let alone a radio. manche 250. Hammerstad and his However, one was in the direct line family take frequent flying vacations• from the Red Baron, with helmet, gog• recently at the Montreal World's Fair gles, and scarf in slipstream. Loops, and in Acapulco, and at the Las Vegas spins, rolls, and ground stops in a hedge Plantation Party in 1965. Hammerstad were the exhilarating order of the day, has been president of the Yakima Club but it was a poor machine to go any• and is an officer in the Yakima Chapter where in. I now fly an S Bonanza with a of the 500-member Washington Pilots top speed of 200 m.p.h. and about the Association. same stall-a 400% improvement- with considerable comfort for six, and erations' at five locations. I would like Beach Airport, and for the last four the added advantage of so many black to say that I have been fortunate in all years he has run the Gresham Flight boxes and needles that I generally know these years of flying in all kinds of Service. He was first state president of where I am. After many years in Mon• weather and in many foreign places. I the Florida Aero Club, which he helped tana ranching, business, and politics, have never met with any serious misfor• organize, and also is a member of Quiet where an airplane was a happy neces• tune. Some of the 'young 'uns' would Birdmen and OX-5. sity and the air was free and clear, it say that it was a lot of luck, but luck is most unpleasant to see 275 Sierra alone does not keep you flying too long. Careful planning and knowing and stay• A. Lee Moore (AOPA 746), Phoenix, gather dust in my Princeton hangar. Ariz. Lee Moore has had his share of Eastern seaboard private flying simply ing within your limitations are the most isn't very practical and is rapidly be• important requisites." chills-like the time, in 1938, when his coming less so. If it weren't for AOPA, Airmaster C-34 "crystallized a crank• I would question its chances for sur• Julius L. Gresham (AOPA 736), Daytona shaft" and lost the propeller. "Four of vival. Years of government's neglect on Beach, Fla. Julius Gresham's first flight us were in it, over high tension wires. all levels to plan for the growth of was on July 15, 1918, so last year he'd We landed and stopped in a quarter of been at it for 50 years and had owned a mile. Then there was the night going corporate and private flying has into Tucson in an AT-l1. There was a brought the obviously predictable day of 27 airplanes-from the Jenny to the Bonanza. He flew with the Marines in short in the primary circuit of the radio reckoning. It may be late to do much World War I and with the Civil Air Pa• about it, but it's worth a big try. Keep and it caught fire." Fortunately for up the good work." trol in World War II. Gresham puts it Moore, "there was a little bit of moon, this way: "Bought a new Jenny ($500) and with the gear up, the lights down after World War I and with the help of and the flaps down, I went into a John Abiuso (AOPA 714), New Cumber• a couple of other pilots-no, not pilots, ploughed field, sliding about 450 feet. land, Pa. Mter 41 years, John Abiuso is but 'aviators' -put it together and did Three days later, with a borrowed pro• still very active in aviation, now keep• some barnstorming. No airman's li• peller and flaps, I flew it back to Phoe• ing and flying a Piper Apache at cense, no numbers on airplanes, no nix:' Moore spent part of World War II Harrisburg-York State Airport. "When A&E mechanics. And very few airports, flying in the CAP and teaching the Brit• not flying off to foreign places," Abiuso except what we made out of fair• ish to fly at Falcon Field near Phoenix. told The PILOT, "I devote time to my grounds and cornfields. I came on up Moore says he considers himself a pi• hangar facilities which are leased to a through the Travel Air 2000, Waco 9 oneer in the use of an aircraft as an steel corporation in Harrisburg, Pa. As and 10, C-2 single-place Aeronca, and ambulance. One of his planes, an AT-l1 some of the 'fly boys' know, my original Ryan STA, until I got into cabin ships." Beechcraft, went through six sets of en• flying started in the Navy and branched In World War II, Gresham served three gines in 15 years because, he says, there out to commercial flying with Trans years and eight months in the CAP, was virtually no one else in Arizona us• World Airlines and All American Avia• chiefly towing antiaircraft units. He ing a plane as an air ambulance. "I sold tion, now Allegheny Airlines, and some was commanding officer of the tow-tar• the AT-l1 when I had an illness and pioneering in 'flying the mails: Other get unit for the entire East Coast. For subsequently bought a Bonanza 35 and activities included managing 'airport op- 18 years, Gresham operated the Daytona a C-45 and traded both on a Twin Bo- nanza. My son and I still have a beauti• Robert J. Reed (AOPA 789), Rye, N.Y. Skylane which they use for hunting, fully equipped Twin Bonanza with President of Heron Leasing, Inc., at fishing, flying in the Powder Puff Derby everything but radar and boots." Rye, member Reed recently returned each year, and flying to cat shows, "as from a three-month stay in Hawaii. my hobby is raising Persian cats." Mrs. John L. Holmes (AOPA 750), La Cana• Unlike many travelers to that Pacific Gladney belongs to the 99s, and each da, Calif. John Holmes now is state, Reed's lengthy trip was occasioned year she and three other members plan instructing Flying Tiger Line pilots with by business, not pleasure. He was in a long vacation trip. "This past Novem• the aid of a DC-8-63 simulator-one of the islands to repair a Riley Heron be• ber we covered Mexico and the Yucatan the few such certificated simulators in longing to his company. "There were with help provided by AOPA Flight the country. Until last year he was LAX many agonizing delays in preparing the Planning. I instruct part time for the chief pilot at Flying Tiger, for which he airplane to be ferried back across 2,400 Palo Alto Flying Club, Lockheed Flying has worked 20 years. "After over 25 miles of ocean, and I kept expecting to Club, and Jim Duncan School of Flying years of airline flying," Moore says, "I leave there from week to week," he in Palo Alto." still enjoy flying and hated to see my reported. Reed indicated that his cur• 60th birthday arrive last year." Moore rent activities revolve around those of Lloyd O. Yost (AOPA 811), Dunedin, kept current in smaller aircraft even his leasing firm. Fla. After graduating from college in while flying for the airlines. He was a 1917 and serving in World War I as a private pilot when he joined AOPA in Walter H. Morrison (AOPA 797), Berke• formation flight instructor, Lloyd Yost 1939, and then, two years later, decided ley, Calif. Walter Morrison owns and barnstormed for a couple of years, ran a to make flying his career. He's enjoyed operates, with two of his sons, a thriv• fixed-base operation at various locations, it all-instructor, test pilot, charter pi• ing jewelry business in Berkeley and then joined a manufacturing company lot, executive pilot, check pilot, airline spends much of his leisure soaring with as executive pilot. Except for time out captain, U.S. Air Force captain. Moore a local Bay area soaring club. He owns for duty in World War II, he stayed points out that "AOPA has kept me in• a Cherokee and also flies Schweizer with the same firm until his retirement formed of the aviation segment I could 2-32s. His current flying companion, in 1956. "Since then," Yost writes, "I find little time for during my airline he reports, is his 22-year-old son who have owned a Piper Tri-Pacer, F Bonan• flying. Now I expect to truly belong in is becoming a skilled soaring pilot, za, 1965 Mooney Super 21, and now a the private area." trained solely in sailplanes. Morrison 1965 Cessna Skyhawk. I try to play nine learned to fly at Benton Field (now a holes of golf every weekday, weather Donald Hood (AOPA 777), Indianapolis, Naval Air Station), Alameda, Calif., and permitting, pulling my own golf cart Ind. "For the past 14 years, I have been received his license in 1932. He was and clubs. On Sundays I go with a a pilot for P. R. Mallory & Company, commissioned in the U.S. Army Air group of Florida Aero Club members Inc., and chief pilot since 1958. We Forces in May 1942. He had three who fly to different airports for the have operated Commanders, an Apache, years' overseas duty. noonday meal, return, and brag about and an Aztec, and at present have two their exploits." The OX-5 Club of Miami, Commanders-a 68E and a 560F• Fla., awarded Yost a plaque Dec. 13, which we fly from Indianapolis to the Jerome A. Waterman (AOPA 800), Tam• 1968, for completion of 50 years of ac• plants of the various Mallory divisions pa, Fla. Jerome Waterman's pilot's tive military, commercial and private located throughout the eastern part of license is no longer active, but Water• flying. "From here on," quipped Yost, "I the country. Our pilot staff consists of man, at the age of 85, is very active• will be busy trying to 'keep breathing.' " four captains (including myself) and one both in business and in aviation affairs. copilot who is working towards qualifi• In the former, he is director of a num• Stanley W. Keck (AOPA 833), Spring• cation as captain. We use a two-pilot ber of corporations, vice president of an town, Pa. When Stanley Keck joined insurance corporation, and chairman of operation on all flights and keep a very AOPA in 1939, he was operating the full schedule. Since many of our plants the board of Maas Brothers, which oper• Bethlehem, Pa., airport. He owned two are located where they are difficult to ates 10 department stores in and around OX-5 Waco 10s at the time. He flew reach by airline or any other means of Tampa. In aviation, he is advisory direc• these in Pennsylvania during his air transportation, the company planes are tor of National Airlines, which he show, aerobatic and racing days, and on very valuable timesavers for our execu• helped to found. Two years ago he was all the Pennsylvania Air Tours in 1939. tives, salesmen and engineers. When I awarded the U.S. Air Force Exceptional Service Award. Waterman obtained his "I served with the Air Force Ferrying first started flying, in 1929, I used to Command during World War II and lat• wonder if I would become tired of the pilot's license, No. 3458, in 1928. He be• came the second businessman in Florida er was CAA flight supervisor for the flying business after a few years, but I War Training Service Program." After am just as enthusiastic about it now as to own and fly his own plane, at that the war, Keck operated and managed when I started ... We are looking for• time an OX-5-powered Travel Air. This he traded for a Travel Air restricted the Keck and Jewett G.!. Flight Train• ward to getting a new turboprop within ing School at Mason, Mich. "At present," the next year or so, and this will be not type with 165 h.p. J-6-5 Wright Whirl• Keck reports, "I am flight instructor at only a pleasure to fly, but a great in• wind engine. In 1929, he secured an Kutztown Aviation Service, Kutztown crease in comfort and timesaving for F.A.!. certificate signed by Orville Pa., Airport. I am instructing students our executives." Wright and an F.A.!. annual sporting in Cessnas,. Citabrias, and Schweizer license for aerobatics, also signed by sailplanes." Ben F. Hazelton (AOPA 784), Phoenix, Wright. During World War II, he was called to active duty with the National Ariz. "I am still flying, since solo 37 Guard and transferred from the 31st George E. Vordenbaum (AOPA 845), San years ago, and after a profitable career Antonio, Tex. An Eaglerock with an OX• as instructor, test pilot, U.S. Army Air Division Artillery to the Army Air 5 engine took George Vordenbaum up Forces pilot in World War II, and most Corps. After returning to National for his first flight training, 40 years ago. Guard status, he was retired at age 64 During these years he has flown over all other types of aircraft driving. My with the rank of lieutenant colonel. No. 1 son flies, and No.2 son is flying 5,000 hours, 2,000 of which were logged F-I05s in the 'Far East love-in.' He has at Bruce Field, where Vordenbaum was about 40 missions thus far. I would like Patricia Thomas Gladney (AOPA 807), a World War II primary flying instruc• to take the time to tell you how much I Los Altos, Calif. Mrs. Gladney learned to tor with the Army Air Corps. He has believe your clinics are helping the gen• fly in an Aeronca C-3 while at Teaneck owned three aircraft-an Aeronca C-3, eral aviation picture. There is no substi• High School in New Jersey. She taught an Aeronca Chief, and a Beechcraft Bo• tute for continued learning. A pilot, if flying in California with the CPT pro• nanza-used for business and pleasure. he is not trying to upgrade his profi• gram and joined the WASPs in 1944. Today, at 63, Vordenbaum is retired ciency, has wasted all the effort and ex• After the war, she continued to instruct from the Army and Air Force Exchange pense involved, and must surely suffer at Bay Meadows Field in San Francisco. Service and flies several times a week in the end. You either keep on learning. Mrs. Gladney and her husband (a cap• out of Stinson Municipal Airport, San or slide back; there is no standing still." tain with Air West) own a Cessna Antonio. (Continued on page 67) 65 (Continued from page 65) Zack Mosley (AOPA 849), Stuart, Fla. Del. William Hobson is now a pilot with Airlines and flew on their military over• October, 1969, will mark the 36th anni• the Hercules Powder Company. He told seas flights ... For many years, I have versary of "Smilin' Jack," the cartoon The PILOT: "From my first days of been a member of Quiet Birdmen, that has made real for so ,many young• dreaming of a career in flying to the Flying Farmers, and the Aviation Coun• sters their own yearning to fly. Some present day total of approximately try Club of California. Last year my were satisfied with the vicarious "kick." 13,000 hours, I have enjoyed each issue wife and I both took an AOPA refresher For others, "Smilin' Jack's" example was of PILOT magazine. From 1938 when I course. I think that this is an outstand• one more reason to become pilots them• soloed, 1939 when I joined AOPA, ing program, and I hope it will be selves. Zack Mosley, creator of the strip, 1941 when I got my first airplane, continued." has loved airplanes since boyhood on an World War II when I enlisted as an in• Oklahoma farm when his ambition was structor, until now as captain of a Waldo F. Field (AOPA 878), Castro Val• to be an aviator and to draw for the Lockheed Jetstar, I've never lost that in• ley, Calif. Waldo Field is deeply in• "funny papers." After studying art and itial excitement of flying. My member• volved in aviation as a 25-year employee cartooning in in the late 1920s, ship in AOPA I have enjoyed and of the Bureau of Naval Weapons, Naval he received his start as an assistant art• cherished through the years, and I feel Air Station, Alameda, Calif. He is also a ist for the then-new "Buck Rogers" strip you have performed a great service for lieutenant colonel and squadron com• and an aviation cartoon called "Sky• the private pilot." mander in the Civil Air Patrol, a roads." Though fascinated by the hero• command pilot as well as mission coor• ism and glamour of the barnstormers, John S. Broome (AOPA 865), Oxnard, dinator. "In this endeavor," Field says, Mosley had been timid about flying les• Calif. Diversified farming of citrus and "I am engrossed in the search-and-res• sons for himself. With encouragement cattle gives John Broome and his Beech• cue and the cadet programs of CAP. I from Chester "Dick Tracy" Gould, he craft Plenty to do. Until last year he normally fly my Bonanza when partici• started flight instruction and at the was also flying a 1935 Aeronca C-3 just pating in the search missions. I am an same time created an aviation strip of for the fun of it, but he has given that active member of the Alameda County his own, using as his angle the "scared airplane to the San Diego Aerospace Sheriff's Aero Squadron, and the West• pilot." The strip was taken on by the Museum where it will be on permanent ern States Aero Sheriffs group." Field Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndi• display. Broome told The PILOT: "In soloed in 1937 and has since accumulat• cate. Since then, Mosley has flown the 1939, I was flying a Fleet that I owned ed 5,500 hours. world over for the background material jointly with Tony Grandis who, al• that keeps the "Smilin' Jack" feature though he is now in his 70s, is still ac• J. V. Crawford (AOPA 895), Santa Ynez, authentic and true to life. Mosley says, tively giving flight instruction in Calif. J. V. Crawford says he "flew a bit "I've slowed down a bit-still have a Gulfport, Miss. In 1941, I became a dis• in some of the older aircraft in 1929 current pilot's license and rent a plane trict flight supervisor for the Civilian Pi• and took some lessons in a Fleet in at our Stuart Airport to keep makin' lot Training Program, and later was 1931. Dropped it until 1937, then gave like a bird." chief flight standardization specialist for it a good try and was licensed that fall. the War Training Service in Washing• I have owned a couple of Wacos, a 37 w. P. Hob~on (AOPA 862), Wilmington, ton. I then transferred to American Standard, and a 37 Custom. After the war, I had purchase order No. 2 on a P. W. Malone, M.D. (AOPA 929), Big Navion from North American. I flew it Spring, Tex. Dr. Malone is a practicing until 1951 and got a Ryan Navion. Jack ophthalmologist but still finds time for Riley made a twin out of that one, and I his duties as president of Big Spring later traded it in on a 1956 Cessna 310 Aircraft, Inc., the local Piper dealer and which is still here at the ranch airport operator of the Howard County Airport. with a 1964 modification job by Jack Ri• He also is vice president of Kasch Broth• ley. I have been a cattle rancher and ers, Inc., general contractors, and often find the transportation very valuable. flies to inspect construction projects un• I've also been with the Santa Barbara der contract to the company. Kasch County Sheriff's Aero Squadron since Brothers owns two turbo-twin Aztecs 1941." Crawford is rated for helicopters which are available for his use. Dr. Ma• as well as for single- and multi-engine lone received his medical degree from fixed-wing aircraft. the University of Tennessee in 1929 and Clarence B. Smith, Jr. (AOPA' 899), his private pilot's license in November Westfield, NJ. "Cap" Smith was a wire• 1936. In 1940, he received his commer• less operator in 1925 at Hadley Field, cial license, later adding multi-engine the U.S. Air Mail's New York terminal. and instrument ratings. Though he has He sent the departure message when taken up many an old-time airplane, Dr. the first night flight took off for Belle• Malone now owns a turbo-twin Coman• fonte, Pa. "I also helped unload the che. "I use it for business and pleasure mail, push the DHs in and out of the trips nearly everywhere I go, and now hangar, start the Liberty engines, etc. I that I have an instrument rating, I filled the pilot's Thermos with coffee I usually am able to get completely up made on the pot stove in the wireless over the bad weather." shack. Veteran pilot Dean Smith ac• cused me of boiling socks in the coffee Orlando J. Miller (AOPA 930), Austin, water! Being an ardent motorcyclist, the Tex. "For 34 years it has been my privi• roar of that Liberty stirred up some• lege to 'breathe and live' airplanes. This thing in me, so in 1927, Johnnie Miller includes a lifetime career in aircraft soloed me in an OX-5 Pitcairn (C977) sales, airplane manufacturing, fixed• at Bob Johnson's (Johnson & Johnson, base operation, executive flying, finance subsequently Gen. Johnson) field in and insurance, sales, airport manage• New Brunswick, N.J., alongside the ment ... The culmination of these cemetery behind the chocolate factory. years has led to our current project• Every landing was a spot landing, the the Longhorn Flying Club and affiliated field being at least 800 feet long! MyoId Longhorn Aero Clubs. Originally spon• logbook shows time in the OX-5 Waco sored by the University of Texas, the 10, Fleet, Bird, Curtiss Junior, Avro Longhorn Aero Clubs have grown into Avian, Spartan, Curtiss Robin, Moth, the 'world's largest flying club,' with Aeromarine Klemm, New Standard over 2,000 members and 154 airplanes trainer, and others. I organized the in 19 chapter locations in Texas and the Plainfield, N.J., squadron of the Civil Southwest. 'Like AOPA, we are dedicated Air Patrol and afterward becam~ group to the welfare of the average man and commander with the rank of major. woman interested in learning about and Presently I fly a Skylane, mostly for participating in the 'flyer's world: " Mill• pleasure, occasionally for business in er's personal library contains some connection with my real estate office at 4,000 volumes on aviation. Westfield, N.J. I enjoy these modern• instrumented airplanes, but sure miss Rollin R. Clarke (AOPA 931), Waterbury, the open cockpit and helmet days when Conn. "Just how far we've come was a 20-minute flight meant not losing brought home to me last summer when sight of the home field while doing I took my son to visit a 'fly-in' featuring nothing but aerobatics." 'old' airplanes. There stood an American Meares Harriss, Jr. (AOPA 906), Wil• Eagle, a Fleet, and other old biplanes• mington, N.C. "Since joining AOPA as a things of beauty to me, but just curious charter member, I have continued to fly antiques to my son. Ever since that day, as a private pilot and find I use the air• I'm afraid he considers me somewhat of plane on business trips a great deal an antique, too. Chalk up one more for more than I do in any other capacity. It the generation gap:' Clarke's first in• furnishes a tremendously convenient structor was Horace B. Wetherell, who means of getting around for speaking is now director of aeronautics for the engagements and business meetings• State of Connecticut. He took his check commitments that would be hard to ar• flight for the private ticket in an Ameri• range any other way. Late in 1968, I can Eagle biplane and also flew Fleets was elected to the Board of County with Kinner engines. "Those old bi• Commissioners of New Hanover County, planes were a pure joy to fly, and I in which capacity I have charge of the can't help feeling that our young people county airport, the New Hanover Munic• are missing some of the exhilaration ipal Airport. This airport is the base for when they 'belt up' in the snug cabins an interceptor squadron, Piedmont Air• of today's planes. I'm not knocking to• lines, a nonscheduled passenger carrier, day's comforts, safety and convenience, and a fixed-base operator. Through my but how many young people today hear work with the airport, I am able to keep their mothers say, 'Now don't go flying closely in touch with many phases of without your parachute'? She tells me I aviation development and, I hope, help always replied, 'Don't worry, Mom, if a little in furthering the progress of anything happens, you'll be the first to aviation, at least on a local basis." know: " (Continued on page 70) (Continued from page 68) Barbara Kibbee Jayne (AOPA 972), Ram• tivity is restricted to reading The PILOT cho Santa Fe, Calif. Head of Jayne Com• every month." pany, a real estate firm located on Palomar Airport at Carlsbad, Mrs. William B. Heilig (AOPA 984), Scotts• Jayne holds several "firsts" in her avia• bluff, Neb. Bill Heilig told The PILOTthat tion career. She was the first woman to he is now 53 years old, keeps his medi• graduate from the Ryan School of cal current, and is flight instructing in Aeronautics (Feb. 22, 1938), and in both airplanes and gliders. He also November 1939 she became the first spends a lot of time constructing 'home• woman flight instructor in the Civilian built' airplanes-among these a much Pilot Training (CPT) Program. Work• modified Smith Miniplane which he fin• ing in the CPT program with Troy Fly• ished and test-flew in June 1965. Heilig ers, Inc., at Troy, N.Y., Mrs. Jayne flew Stearmans from 1942 until 1945 at recalled: "Most of the students came Avon Park, Fla., training U.S. Army Air from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Forces cadets in the CPT program. He and we flew Luscombe Continental 65s, operated a crop-dusting service from on skis or wheels, from dawn till dark, 1946 to 1948, then became a sporting seven days a week on this program." goods dealer and part-time flight in• During World War II, she worked for structor until 1967, when he retired Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corpo• from business. "I joined AOPA 30 years ration, Bethpage, N.Y. "Grumman was ago because it was evident that a flying supplying the Navy with twin-engine organization was needed to promote and amphibians, fighters and fighter-bomber encourage private flying. AOPA has aircraft," she said of that period of her more than fulfilled the cause for which career. "Teddy Kenyon, Lib Hooker and it was organized, and it should be evi• I were the three women test pilots dent to all general aviation pilots that at Grumman." Following the war, she we would not enjoy the flying freedom ran a flight school in Annapolis, Md., we now have were it not for AOPA and later moved to California. She now bucking for us." owns and flies a Cessna 175, and says, "It is a great help when showing land. E. Jack Hoyt (AOPA 992), Oak Lawn, For pleasure flying, it is a fine transport III. E. J. Hoyt never paused in his com• to Baja California, where flying is sort mercial aviation activities. Before World of 'like it was.' Dirt strips, no weather War II, he was a primary instructor in forecasts, gasoline from barrels strained J-3 Cubs for the Civilian Pilot Training through a chamois, and bailing wire Program. After Pearl Harbor, he in• maintenance, all of which is just as structed for the U.S. Army Air Corps good today as it was 30 years ago. And primary training program in PT-17 just as much fun, because you're on Stearmans, then went on to employment your own." as copilot for two major airlines, one of which held a military contract to trans• Anthony G. Barone, Sr. (AOPA 982), port high-priority cargo and personnel. Wurt~boro, N.Y. In 1939, when he joined Postwar: a bit of this and a bit of that, AOPA, Anthony Barone owned and op• then Hoyt was hired as a corporate pilot erated North American Flying Service, for a Chicago-based company that Inc., a seaplane base in Little Ferry, owned a C-model Bonanza and later a N.Y. In a couple of years he also took Travel Air. He is a corporate pilot at the on the fixed-base operation in Wurts• present time for another company, boro, N.Y., and briefly tried a little flying a "very well-equipped Baron freight and passenger service with a which is based at Chicago's Midway Air• surplus DC-3. Development of the port." Wurtsboro operation became his full• time interest in 1952. At present, the W. H. Burkhalter (AOPA 1001), North Wurtsboro Airport has a year-round fa• Augusta, S.C. A little taste of politics as cility, operating off a new 3,600-foot city councilman and two terms as may• paved runway and taxi complex. In ad• or taught W. H. Burkhalter that "even dition, there is a year-round soaring in the worst weather I had tackled as a school with complete facilities. Barone pilot, I had never encountered anything is a member of the Sullivan County Air• as violent as a group of enraged citi• port Commission, the town planning zens." Therefore, he exited from politics board at Mamakating, and the board of while he "could still say I had never directors of Sailflights, Inc. been defeated in an election." Burkhal• ter had had plenty of all-weather Joseph E. Martanovic (AOPA 983), experience in the air, as flight instructor Cleveland, O. "I well remember the in the CPT program and, after Pearl skeptics who predicted a very short ex• Harbor, instructing U.S. cadets in the istence for the AOPA. They called it BT-13. In 1944, he transferred to the 'just another group organized to make a Military Air Transport Command as a fast buck.' Now time has proven the val• contract pilot with Trans \Vorld Air• ue and need for this great general lines' intercontinental division. After aviation fraternity. Those of us who World War II and until 1948, Burkhal• started the hit-and-miss style of private ter flew with TW A extensively ip Eu• flying in the 1930s, as airport rats, prop rope, the Middle East and India, in spinners and general-duty hangar stu• DC-4s and Constellations. Burkhalter is dents, well-realized the need for an or• in the construction and real estate busi• ganization such as AOPA to give us in• ness and keeps his flying proficiencies telligent and progressive guidance. I current. His present aircraft (owned hope," says Martanovic, "to continually with two partners) is "a fine little support the AOPA, even though my ac- Comanche." D