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•Flying a Helio Courier •Airventure Awards •Vin Fiz Straight & Level Vintage Airplane GEOFF ROBISON STAFF VAA PRESIDENT, EAA 268346, VAA 12606 EAA Publisher SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013 Super CUB One •Flying a Helio Courier •AirVenture Awards •Vin Fiz Straight & Level Vintage Airplane GEOFF ROBISON STAFF VAA PRESIDENT, EAA 268346, VAA 12606 EAA Publisher . .Jack J . Pelton, . .Chairman of the Board Editor-in-Chief . J . Mac McClellan Editor . Jim Busha Oshkosh 2013 is now . [email protected] VAA Executive Administrator Max Platts in the history books 920-426-6110 . [email protected] Advertising Director . Katrina Bradshaw 202-577-9292 . [email protected] Uppermost in the minds of many of our members today is the Advertising Manager . Sue Anderson recent FAA action to assess operational fees for air traffic control ser- 920-426-6127 . [email protected] vices at AirVenture Oshkosh. To me, this is a particularly troublesome Art Director . Livy Trabbold development that arises out of the issues relevant to sequestration as VAA, PO Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903 it was applied to the FAA. Early on in this debate Congress responded Website: www.VintageAircraft.org by exempting the FAA from the budget cuts that sequestration im- Email: [email protected] posed on them. Of course, we all wrongly assumed that this would eliminate the then “proposed” fees placed on AirVenture Oshkosh. This very burdensome level of fees is really an unfair tax on a signifi- cant aviation event that has been leveled by the FAA without any authority whatsoever to act in this manner. My real purpose here is to merely reach out to our membership and encourage you all to TM continue to communicate to your representatives in Washington our strong displeasure with this unauthorized attack on general aviation. VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION This action by the FAA has now caught the ire of many of the mem- Current EAA members may join the Vin- We are proud of the partnership between Ford and EAA and the bers of the GA coalition in our Congress, and this has resulted in a tage Aircraft Association and receive VINTAGE benefits we can bring together to AirVenture. Our relationship strong admonition to the FAA from them. So, please be sure to also AIRPLANE magazine for an additional $42 spans more than a decade, and we continue to expand each year! thank those congressional members who have taken a strong position per year. against this unauthorized action by the FAA. Finally, please be as- EAA Membership, VINTAGE AIRPLANE Our goal is to enhance the EAA experience for all members and to sured that our government relations group at EAA is deeply engaged magazine and one year membership in the on this issue, and we all appreciate their efforts and hope for a posi- EAA Vintage Aircraft Association is available improve the consideration of Ford Motor Company products. for $52 per year (SPORT AVIATION magazine not tive resolution to all of these issues. included). (Add $7 for International Postage.) EAA appreciates Ford’s active involvement at AirVenture by As I pen this edition of Straight & Level, it is actually the day before supporting the opening day Chicago concert, the nightly Fly-In AirVenture 2013 begins. Many early signs of a successful event are FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS Theater, the fantastic Thunderbirds Edition Mustang benefitting developing right before our eyes. Strong numbers of volunteers, Please submit your remittance with a record numbers of registered returning past Grand Champions, a check or draft drawn on a United States the Young Eagles and so much more. strong number of early arriving display and camping aircraft, and a bank payable in United States dollars. Add 2013 AirVenture was a remarkable week of excitement and fun. good number of vintage aircraft that we have never before seen at required Foreign Postage amount for each Oshkosh are all excellent indicators of a successful event. membership. Thank you for attending AirVenture and we look forward to Of course, by the time you read this month’s Straight & Level seeing you again next year! Edsel B. Ford II Jack Pelton Member Services Board Director, Ford Motor Co. EAA Chairman column, AirVenture 2013 will be in the history books, and I am PO Box 3086 EAA members are eligible for special pricing on Ford Motor Company vehicles through optimistic that those of you who came to share the passion had a Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086 Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM—6:00 PM CST Ford’s Partner Recognition Program. To learn more on this exclusive opportunity for grand time and enjoyed yet another excellent episode of the World’s EAA members to save on a new Ford vehicle, please visit www.eaa.org/ford. Greatest Aviation Celebration. Join/Renew 800-564-6322 It’s also very appropriate to me that we recognize the efforts of the [email protected] VAA board of directors for their monstrous engagement in this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh event and the hundreds of vintage volunteers who yet again invested www.airventure.org 888-322-4636 continued on page 63 www.VintageAircraft.org 1 EAA_Divis_Sep_Thank_You_Ad.indd 1 8/8/13 4:35 PM Vol. 41, No. 5 2013 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 20 Flying a Helio Courier in a Country Kinda Way! Aaron Tippin and his 1959 H-395 Helio Jim Busha 28 Turning Back the Hands of Time The resurrection and restoration of the first Piper Super Cub Jim Busha 38 The Papoose Pair A different kind of Cub COVERS at AirVenture FRONT COVER: Roger and Darin Megger’s are all smiles in their Super Cub number Budd Davisson one. Russ Munson Photo. BACK COVER: Aaron Tippin flies his Helio 45 Courier for Jim Koepnick’s camera lens. Coast to Coast With the Vin Fiz Part 1 ANY COMMENTS? Send your thoughts to the The 84-day odyssey of Cal Rodgers Vintage Editor at: [email protected] Mark Carlson For missing or replacement magazines, or any other membership-related ques- tions, please call EAA Member Services at 800-JOIN-EAA (564-6322). @VintageEAA facebook.com/EAAVintage COLUMNS 1 Straight and Level 4 Air Mail 10 How to? 15 Ask the AME 54 Around the Pylons 58 The Vintage Mechanic Oshkosh 2013 is now Prepare a surface for fabric covering Disqualifying medical conditions How to beat your plowshare Aircraft covering, Part 1 in the history books 6 2013 AirVenture Robert G. Lock John Patterson, M.D., AME into a sword Robert G. Lock Geoff Robison Vintage Awards Don Berliner 12 The Vintage Instructor 16 Good Old Days 63 Gone West & New Members 8 Join Friends of the Red Barn Aviation growth through vintage aircraft Steve Krog, CFI 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013 www.VintageAircraft.org 3 Air Mail Don Berliner’s July/August column Hi Jim, Just got the new Vintage mag. And, as always, enjoy reading it. Please send Kadiak Speedster N11312 this attachment to Don Berliner that wrote the article on the race planes in July/August. In the 1991 EAA Sport Jim, see, by one of Albert Hunter’s daughters and Walter’s Aviation there is also an article on race I very much enjoyed Don’s articles on pre-World War niece. The tail of NR614K was used in rebuilding Travel planes with Pete. Ed Marquart restored II racing aircraft. These articles tie in with two articles Air Mystery Ship NR614K, which is now on display at Pete’s structure, and I covered and I wrote about the Hunter brothers that were published the Beech Heritage Museum. The airplane is painted as painted it in ’91 just before we took it to in Vintage Airplane in June and July 2012. Gordon Is- it was when it won the 1929 Thompson Trophy race. Oshkosh. Pete was cut in half to restore, rael was a good friend of Kenneth Hunter. In fact, Ken- When Walter rebuilt the airplane for the 1931 Bendix as the front half had been so modified neth and Gordon Israel built a racing plane and planned Trophy Race, he painted it orange and black, the colors with welding that Ed remade the front to enter in the 1932 National Air Race at Cleveland, of the University of Illinois. for Pete, and Greg Laird made a new aft Ohio. Kenneth crashed the airplane while testing it at Robert H. Hayes for Little Audrey as discussed in the at- Lambert Field in St. Louis. Israel and Hunter decided EAA 1021394 tached article. not to rebuild the airplane. Gordon Israel went on the VAA 721606 Thanks. work for Grumman Aircraft during WWII. Jan Johnson Sport Aviation, November 1991 Walter Hunter purchased the Travel Air Mystery Dear Jim, Ship NR614K from Curtiss Wright in June 1931. He I truly enjoyed the Laird article in the May/June Jim, many old eyes watching as they helped and advised. replaced the engine with a Curtiss Wright J6 engine 2013 issue. Amazing that No. 203 survived in the fac- I was reading Mr. Berliner’s piece in the July/Au- I enjoy all the EAA publications and will continue that Curtiss Wright gave the Hunter brothers after tory crates for all those years! The number of Lairds gust issue and stopped at the Kadiak Speedster and to support your efforts to support private aviation. their record-setting endurance flight. He flew the air- manufactured needs clarification though. looked at the attached pictures, and N11312 hit me. Please use this e-mail as you wish and, of course, plane to Teterboro, New Jersey, and installed a new On page 35 it states, “Were 203 different Lairds This machine was also owned by Robert Young of send it on to Mr. Berliner. Curtiss Wright J6 engine. He flew the airplane to Bur- built in the various models.” Martinsville, Indiana, probably in ’41 plus or minus Jim Moschenross bank, California, for the Bendix Transcontinental Race.
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