April 2011

Chapter 675 Marshalltown, IA

WHEN: WHERE: •President PROGRAM: APRIL Thursday the 14th FISHER SLOSHKOSH MEETING 7 pm COMMUNITY REVISTED/ CENTER SUN N FUN REPORT

Paul Adams WHAT’S FLYIN’ THIS WAY !!! 2144L Marsh Ave. By now most of you have heard of Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-753-6222 the excitement that happened at [email protected] Sun ‘N Fun. We here in Iowa know what a tornado can do, and they certainly do not mix well with a •Vice President large fly-in! We had Chapter 675 members there, and will have all the skinny for us at the meeting on Thursday. Our original intention was to gather at Gary Nablo’s skunkworks to see how he is David Cheung doing on the Taylor Monoplane, 703 W. Main St. but he is still recouperating from A Sun ‘n Fun Pieten-pile Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-751-9785 his broken leg so we decided to not pressure him into cleaning and organizing the shop, baking the cookies, making the coffee, etc. while hopping around on one leg and a crutch, all for a [email protected] bunch of airplane fanatics. (Although it has been reported Gary hobbles out to the shop whenever he can). So our meeting will be at the Fisher Community Center one more time this year. Paul •Sec/Treas has some video of the Sloshkosh Event of last summer which will be an interesting contrast to this years Sun n Fun.

Don’t forget our pre-meeting get together at Taco Johns on Center Street at 6pm!

Dave McCurry WHAT FLEW BY !!! 5 Valley View Rd. Marshalltown, IA 50158 Pres. Paul opened our last meeting with a few items of interest including the fact EAA has a 641-752-4729 way for any member to give a free 6 month membership to an interested individual. The only [email protected] requirements are to be interested in aviation, and have not been a member for at least 3 years. When they are signed up, they will receive Sport Aviation online, and have all other member •Newsletter Editor benefits for that 6 month period. It also includes a ONE year membership to our local chapter. Call Paul if you know of someone you would like to sign up. After some general discussion of how to increase membership, we watched the Vintage Aero Flying Museum’s video about their trip to the Dawn Patrol Rendevoux held at the Wright Patterson Airforce Museum in Dayton, Ohio. A Fokker Dr-1, D-VIII, and Fokker D-VII made the Corey Butcher flight with a few tumbles on the way. 2940 Arney Ave Speaking of membership, make sure you welcome those who have joined in the past few State Center, IA 50247 months. Ron Hager, Joseph Selk, Robert Blink, Roy Bradbury, Mike Tingley, and LaVern 641-493-2415 (hm) Cosselman! Plus familiar face, Chad Nablo now has his own national EAA membership. 515-331-2943 (wk) And, if you are a current member and are wondering when the last time was you paid your [email protected] dues, ask Dave McCurry. He is updating his list and loves to use the letters, PD. CALENDAR Sunday, June 5 Denison Municipal Airport For those of you on the internet, all of the information for aviation events are available in many places. Links to the websites that Flight Breakfast have all the info you need are listed below. If you do not have 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m internet access, and a specific event you are interested in is not Fly-ins eat free listed in the newsletter, just call me and I will be happy to look up 712-265-1608 (John Amdor) the info for you. Fort Dodge Regional Airport 11am-2pm 04/16 Sunday, June 5 Annual Chili Fly-in/Drive-in Audubon Municipal Airport Pilots in command free Flight Breakfast 515-955-3434 (Eric Amundson) 6:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. E-mail: [email protected] Fly-ins eat free 712-563-3780 (Barbara Smith) Chapter 675 Meeting 7pm 04/14 E-mail: [email protected]

Dubuque Regional Airport 7am-noon 04/17 Sunday, June 12 Fly-in / Drive-in Breakfast NW Iowa Regional Airport (Spencer) Hosted by the University of Dubuque Flight Team Flight Breakfast 630-660-6413 (Matt Metelak) 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. E-mail: [email protected] Fly in pilots eat free. Pilot Safety Meeting 7pm-9pm 04/20 Leading Edge Aviation 712-262-1000 Iowa Aviation Conference E-mail: [email protected] West Des Moines. 515-289-4821 (Chris Manthe) Friday, June 17 - Tuesday, June 21 Registration available at www.FAASafety.gov Iowa City Municipal Airport Email: [email protected] 35th Annual Air Race Classic Kickoff 319-331-6235 (Minnetta Gardinier) Webster City Municipal Airport 7am-11am 04/30 E-mail: [email protected] Fly-in breakfast Website: www.airraceclassic.org 515-832-3723 (Susie Storm) calendarMay 2011 Saturday, June 18 - Sunday, June 19 Quad City Air Show Red Oak Municipal Airport 7am-11am 05/01 Davenport Municipal Airport Flight breakfast 25th Anniversary/Blue Angels 712-623-6523 (Gail Ernst) 563-285-7469 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.quadcityairshow.com Pella Municipal Airport 7 am-10am 05/07 Tulip Time Flight Breakfast FLY IOWA 2011 9/17 7 a.m. – 10 a.m. Newton Municipal Airport Pilots in command free 641-485-7219 (Jim Jones) 641-628-9393 (Shane Vande Voort) E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.flyiowa.org Website: www.pellatuliptime.com

Ankeny Regional Airport 9 am-12pm 05/21 Ankeny Flying Clubs Open House www.eaa.org/calendar 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. www.FunPlacesToFly.com www.flyins.com 515-240-7153 (Joel Severinghaus) www.iawings.com/calendar/yearly.htm E-mail: [email protected] Website www.clearskiesflyingclub.com www.solarflyingclub.com

Council Bluffs Municipal Airport 8 am – 4 pm 06/04 Spring Open House & Fly-in Breakfast Pilots in command free Visit your Chapter 675 website! 712-366-6631 (Dale Standley) E-mail: [email protected] www.eaa675.org Most Americans who were not adults during WWII have no WWII MOST-PRODUCED COMBAT AIRCRAFT understanding of the magnitude of it. This listing of some of II-2 Stum0vik 36,183 the aircraft facts gives a bit of insight to it. The US civilian Yak 1, 3, 7, 9 31,000+ population maintained a dedicated effort for four years, many Bf 109 30,480 working long hours seven days per week and often also Fw 190 29,001 volunteering for other work. WWII was the largest human Spit/Seafire 20,351 effort in history. B-24/PB4Y 18,482 Statistics from Flight Journal magazine: Thunderbolt 15,686 Mustang 15,875 276,000 aircraft manufactured in the US. Ju 88 15,000 43,000 planes lost overseas, including 23,000 in combat. Hurricane 14,533 14,000 lost in the continental U.S. P-40 13,738 B-17 12,731 THE COST of DOING BUSINESS Corsair 12,571 ---- The staggering cost of war. Hellcat 12,275 Pe-2 11,400 THE PRICE OF VICTORY (cost of an aircraft in WWII dollars) P-38 10,037 B-17 $204,370. P-40 $44,892. Zero 10,449 B-24 $215,516. P-47 $85,578. B-25 9,984 B-25 $142,194. P-51 $51,572. LaGG-5 9,920 B-26 $192,426. C-47 $88,574. Avenger 9,837 B-29 $605,360. PT-17 $15,052. P-39 9,584 P-38 $97,147. AT-6 $22,952. Oscar 5,919 Mosquito 7,780 PLANES A DAY WORLDWIDE Lancaster 7,377 From Germany's invasion of Poland Sept. 1, 1939 and ending He 111 6,508 with Japan's surrender Sept. 2, 1945 --- 2,433 days. From Halifax 6,176 1942 onward, America averaged 170 planes lost a day. Bf 110 6,150 LaGG-7 5,753 How many is a 1,000 planes? B-17 production (12,731) B-29 3,970 wingtip to wingtip would extend 250 miles. 1,000 B-17s carried Stirling 2,383 2.5 million gallons of high octane fuel and required 10,000 airmen to fly and fight them. According to the AAF Statistical Digest, in less than four years (December 1941- August 1945), the US Army Air THE NUMBERS GAME Forces lost 14,903 pilots, aircrew and assorted personnel 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline consumed, 1942-1945. plus 13,873 airplanes --- inside the continental United 107.8 million hours flown, 1943-1945. States. They were the result of 52,651 aircraft accidents 459.7 billion rounds of aircraft ammo fired overseas, 1942- (6,039 involving fatalities) in 45 months. 1945. 7.9 million bombs dropped overseas, 1943-1945. Think about those numbers. They average 1,170 aircraft 2.3 million combat sorties, 1941-1945 (one sortie = one accidents per month---- nearly 40 a day. (Less than one takeoff). accident in four resulted in totaled aircraft, however.) 299,230 aircraft accepted, 1940-1945. It gets worse...... 808,471 aircraft engines accepted, 1940-1945. Almost 1,000 Army planes disappeared en route from the 799,972 propellers accepted, 1940-1945. US to foreign climes. But an eye-watering 43,581 aircraft were lost overseas including 22,948 on combat missions (18,418 against the Western Axis) and 20,633 attributed to non-combat causes overseas. continued next month

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This airplane from 1909 was designed and flown by Hans Grade of Germany. What is unique about this early bird is its weight. It could be considered the first ultralight (based on current UL standards). It weighed only 225 lbs WITH fuel. It is configured similar to Santos Dumont’s Demoiselle, but the Demoiselle was over 254 lbs. Grade built a few different versions with the main difference being the control system and engine. Some were wing warp with others, crude ailerons.