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EDITORIAL STAFF Publisher Tom Poberezny Vice-President, Marketing and Communications Dick Matt April 1992 Vol. 20, No.4 Editor-in-Chief Jack Cox Editor CONTENTS Henry G . Frautschy Managing Editor Contents Golda Cox Art Director Mike Drucks Straight & LeveVEspie "Butch" Joyce Computer Graphic Specialist Olivia L. Phillip 2 AeroMail Advertising Mary Jones Assciate Editor 3 AlC News Norm Petersen Feature Writers Page 10 George Hardie, Jr. Dennis Parks 6 Vintage LiteraturelDennis Parks Staff Photographers Jim Koepnick Mike Steineke Carl Schuppel Donna Bushman 10 Of Tiger Moths And Men/Bill Wright Editorial Assistant Isabelle Wiske 16 What Our Members Are Restoring/ EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INC, Norm Petersen OFFICERS President Vice-President 18 Honeymoon Fairchild/Jim Ricklefs Espie "Butch' Joyce Arthur Morgan 604 Highway SI. 3744 North 51st Blvd. Madison. NC 27025 Milwaukee, WI 53216 919/427-0216 414/422-3631 20 Family Champ/Norm Petersen Secretary Treasurer Steven C. Nesse E.E. 'Buck' Hilbert 2009 Highland Ave. P.O. Box 424 24 Pass It To BucklE.E. "Buck" Hilbert Albert Leo, MN w:lJ7 Union, IL 60180 507/373-1674 815/923-4591 25 Snap-on's Hints For Restorers DIRECTORS John Berndt Robert C. "Bob' Brauer 7645 Echo Point Rd . 9345 S. Hoyne Connon Falls. MN 55009 Chica~o .I L 26 Welcome New Members 507/263-2414 312/77 -2105 Gene Chase John S. Copeland 2159 Carlton Rd. 28-3 Wllliamsbu'8 Ct. Oshkosh , WI 54904 Shrewsbury, MA 1545 27 Calendar 414/231-5002 508/842-7867 Phil Coulson Geor~e Daubner 28415 Springbrook Dr. 2448 ough Lone 28 Mystery Plane/George Hardie Lawton, MI 49065 Hartford. WI 53027 616/624-6490 414/673-5885 Charles Harris Stan Gomoll 3933 South Peoria 1042 90th Lone, NE 30 Vintage Trader Page 20 P.O. Box 904038 Mlnnea~olls, MN 55434 Tulsa. OK 74105 61 /784-1172 919/742-7311 Dole A. Gustatson Jeannie Hill 7724 Shady Hill Dr. P.O. Box 328 FRONT COVER ... Jim Solbralske e njoys the smooth a ir over Lake Indianapolis. IN 46278 Harvard, IL 60033 L ....~:O:==.-j Winnebago in his newly restored Aeronca 7AC Champion. Photo by 317/293-4430 815/943-7205 Mike Steineke. shot with a Canon EOS- 1 equipped with an 80-200 Robert UCktei~ Robert D. "Bob" Lumley lens. 1/500 sec. at f5.6. EAA photo plane flown by Buck Hilbert . 1708 Boy Oaks r. 1265 South 124th St. Albert Leo, MN w:lJ7 Brookfield, WI 53005 507/373-2922 414/782-2633 BACK COVER ... AI a nd Billie Pemberto n's d e Havilland DH 82a Tiger Gene Morris George York Moth took "Best in Show" honors at the 1991 Ca marillo Fly-In. Photo 115C Steve Court, R.R. 2 181 Sloboda Av. by Ph illip Mankana ©. Roanoke, TX 76262 Mansfield. OH 44906 817/491-9110 419/529-4378 S.H. OWes" Schmid 2359 Lefeber Avenue Copyright © 1992 by the EM Antique/Classic Division Inc. All rights reserved. Wauwatosa , WI 53213 VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antique/Classic Division. Inc. of the Experimental 414/771-1545 Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EAA Aviation Center. 3000 Poberezny Rd.. P.O. Box 3086. Oshkosh. Wisconsin 54903-3086. Second Class Postage paid at Oshkosh. Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices. The membership rate for EM Antique/Classic DIRECTOR EMERITUS Division. Inc. is $20.00 for current EM members for 12 month period of which $12.00 is for the publication of VINTAGE AIRPLANE. Membership S.J. Willmon is open to all who are interested in aviation. 7200 S.E. 85th Lone Ocala , FL 32672 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to EM Antique/Classic Division. Inc.• P.O. Box 3086. Oshkosh. WI 54903-3086. FOREIGN AND APO 904/245-7768 ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail. ADVERTISING - Antique/Classic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising. We invite constructive ADVISORS criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be taken. Jimmy Rollison EDITORIAL POLICY: Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs. Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the 823 Carrion Circle authors. Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor. No renumeration is made. Winters, CA 95694-1665 Material should be sent to: Editor, VINTAGE AIRPLANE, P.O. Box 3086, Oshkosh, WJ54903-3086. Phone 4141426-4800. 916/795-4334 The words EAA, ULTRALIGHT, FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM, SPORT AVIATION and the logos of EAA, EAA INTERNATIONAL Dean Richardson Geoff Robison CONVENTION, EM ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUBS, WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are ® registered 6701 Colony Dr. 1521 E. MacGregor Dr. Madison, WI 53717 trademarKs. THE EM SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EM AVIATION FOUNDATION and EM ULTRAUGHT CONVENTION are trademari<s New Hoven. IN 46774 608/833-1291 219/493-4724 of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited. STRAIGHT & LEVEL Aviation Foundation. Hopefully we will I would like to congratulate H.G. on be able to participate more in this type of his article in the March issue of support in the future on behalf of the An­ VINTAGE AIRPLANE on aircraft res­ '" tique/Classic Division membership. The toration and the FAR 21.303. He did a ~ largest one thing that has contributed to us great deal of research and coordination ~ turning the comer and becoming solvent with the FAA, to put this issue into "" is the increase in membership. Once we perspective and draw a proper con­ ~ passed about 5,000 members, the mem­ clusion. Also in this past March issue of bership fee has enabled us to hold our VINTAGE AIRPLANE, the centerfold heads above water, and do a bit of swim­ with a Continental Airlines DC-3 ming! As our membership continues to reminded me that Piedmont Airlines grow (it is growing at a rate of about 14 also restored a DC-3, with the interior by Espie "Butch" Joyce percent), we will be able to offer better and everything else just immaculate. I service and better quality publications to think this aircraft is now being operated our members. by Piedmont Aviation, Inc. It was my That's my pitch, and I would like to ask good fortune to be able to get checked that each individual member who has a out in this DC-3 at one point in time. friend who is interested in our type of When I first got into this DC-3, I thought aircraft (which now extends up through it would really be a nice "fly-in" As some of you are reading this issue 1960), to become a member so that our airplane. Load up all your friends, of VINTAGE AIRPLANE, there will be broader membership base will make us a (everyone could take their buckets of a number of your officers, directors and more solid organization. chicken, and coolers) and look at all the editorial staff at the Sun 'n Fun EAA While talking about VINTAGE shade you would have under that large Fly-In at Lakeland, Florida to be of assis­ AIRPLANE, I would like to review a few wing! I was still thinking about this tance to the Sun 'n Fun crew, and also to items. On the editorial staff, the publisher when the line boys pulled up and we put cover the event for future magazine of VINTAGE AIRPLANE is also the pub­ five gallons of oil in the left engine and reports. lisher of SPORT AVIATION, Tom eight gallons of oil in the right engine ­ In the mail the other day, I received a Poberezny. Editor-in-Chief of all EAA and then he poured 350 gallons of fuel subscription solicitation from a well­ publications is Jack Cox , SPORT in the tanks, just to fly around the pat­ known aviation publication, with the 12 AVIATION's Editor. Jack does an excel­ tern. At this time I changed my mind month subscription rate around $40.00. It lent job. Of course our own Editor is about whether it would have been an struck me that being a member of the Henry G. Frautschy. H.G. is really doing affordable fly-in airplane or not. I think Antique/Classic Division for only $20.00 a great job for us on the magazine. As an not, at least for an individual, unless a year, we also receive our fine publication Aeronca owner, his personal interest lies they make quite a bit more money than VINTAGE AIRPLANE on a monthly with the antique/classic aircraft. Manag­ I do. It was really a fun flying aircraft basis. VINTAGE improves every month, ing Editor is Golda Cox. Golda is Jack's and I was surprised at how easy it was and that can attributed to the articles sent wife and does a great job keeping to fly. I have to tell you that ease of in by our membership. I encourage everybody on schedule. I'm sure that she flying is one thing, but taxiing from the everyone to continue sending them in, gets uptight at me at times for being delin­ ramp to the end of the runway presents particularly articles that deal with items of quent in turning in my Straight & Level another problem. It was probably one of a teclmical nature. These are very popular collllml, although she has never said any­ the most difficult tail wheel airplanes I with our members.
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