The Magazine of the EAA Antique/Classic Division, May 1990 STRAIGHT AND LEVEL
exceptionally good time this year. again the airport became a weekend €" We'll have more on upcoming events in gathering place for locals. The field 8o next month's issue. was never again run as a fixed base ::; business, but was more like a social club ""o ~ with everyone looking after each other. White XS We had fuel, but it was a self-service by Espie HButch" Joyce The death of an airport is a subject honor system and the arrangement that has been on my mind for some time worked great. My father passed away and I would like to relate my experience in 1967. I was 23 years old and con to you. My father started flying in 1936 tinued to operate the airport. These deadlines seem to come closer and soon came to love both aviation and Then it happened, our first accident. each month. It seems that no sooner am aviation people. After World War II he This accident took the life of an eight I through with one column than another bought a farm outside of our small year-old bystander off of the airport is needed. It really makes me appreciate North Carolina community where he property. During the next several years, how difficult it must be for our editorial built a grass strip airport in 1946. Later the lawsuits flew . Finally, the one staff to put together a complete he built a house on this farm and we against the airport was dropped, but we magazine every 30 days. Sometime moved there in 1948 when I was four had paid a lot of money defending our when you have a spare moment you years old. I was born into aviation and selves. Town was getting closer. A might like to drop Mark and the gang a grew up the same way. A man named new high school was being built on one note of appreciation. This kind of cor Charles Bailey opened a combination approach end and a senior citizen's cen respondence is a great morale booster. body shop and fixed base operation on ter was going up on the other end. We our airport around 1948. were now within the city's corporate Aviation in our community came limits. My mind was made up. I didn't Sun'n Fun alive during the next couple of years. want to own this airport any longer be I was able to spend a few days at the Almost everyone was learning to fly . A cause the liabilities were too great. To EAA Sun 'n Fun fly-in this year. They Gullwing Stinson was used for charter make a long story short, I sold the really had a great turn-out of people and work and instruction was given in J-3 property to a manufacturing concern airplanes. Antique/Classic Division and J-5 Cubs. some seven years ago. They have al Chapter One did an outstanding job of My dad opened a Studebaker dealer lowed "Mayo Airport" to remain open managing the AlC area. This chapter is ship in 1949. We also had a tire recap since then, but the word came today. a good example of how the system can ping shop and a welding shop in the The white Xs go up next Monday. Al work outside of EAA Headquarters. same building located next to our run though I am not located on this airport, There are also a number of A/C mem way. Well, you can see the trend. The I am sad that it will finally be closed. I bers from all around the United States town was getting closer. grew up there, I came to love aviation who volunteer to help Chapter One We took on a Massey-Ferguson and aviation people there. The during Sun 'n Fun,just as they do during dealership in 1950 (it was just Ferguson memories cannot be bulldozed away. the Oshkosh Convention. back then). That same year, Charles They will live with me forever. Bailey was killed in an airshow while Grass Airports like this one are be flying an airplane he had built. He coming a rarity, so let 's respect them EAA Oshkosh '90 called it, "The Thing" and it had a 12 and treat them safely. Let's all pull Along this line, I look forward to foot wingspan. together in the same direction for the welcoming each one of you to EAA Interest in the airport hit bottom from good of aviation. Join us and have it all! Oshkosh '90. We expect to have an that time until 1953/'54 when once 2 MAY 1990 • PUBLICATION STAFF PUBLISHER Tom Poberezny VICE-PRESIDENT MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Dick Matt EDITOR Mark Phelps MANAGING EDITOR Golda Cox MAY 1990 • Vol. 18, No.5 ART DIRECTOR Mike Drucks Copyright © 1990 by the EAA AntiquelClassic Division. Inc. All rights reserved. ADVERnSING Mary Jones ASSOCIATE EDITORS Norman Petersen Dick Cavin FEATURE WRITERS Contents George A Hardie, Jr. Dennis Parks EDITORIAl ASSISTANT 2 Straight and Levellby Espie "Butch" Joyce Isabelle Wiske STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Letters to the Editor Jim Koepnlck Carl Schuppel 4 Jeff Isom 5 AIC Newslby Mark Phelps EM ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INC. OFFICERS 7 Members' Projectslby Norm Petersen Page 10 President Vice President Espie "Butch" Joyce Arthur R. Morgan 8 Sun 'n Fun in Photoslby Mark Phelps 604 Highway SI. 3744 North 51st Blvd. Madison. NC 27025 M ilwaukee.WI 53216 919/427-0216 414/442-3631 10 Vintage Literaturelby Dennis Parks Secretary Treasurer George S. York E.E. "Buck" Hilbert 12 Calendar 181 Sloboda Ave. P.O. Box 424 Mansfield. OH 44906 Union. IL 60180 419/529-4378 815/923-4591 13 Do You Know Me?lby B.J . Shoup DIRECTORS Robert C "Bob" Brauer John S. Copeland 16 Dutch Treatlby Walter van Tilborg 9345 S. Hoyne 9 Joanne Drive Page 16 Chicago. IL 60620 Westborough. MA 01581 22 Rough Riverlby Ron Ferrara 312m9-2105 508/366-7245 Philip Coulson William A Eickhoff 28415 Springbrook Dr 41515th Ave.. N.E. 26 Chapter Capsuleslby Bob Brauer Lawton. MI 49065 St. Petersburg. FL 33704 616/624-6490 813/823-2339 28 Pass It To Buck/by E.E. "Buck" Hilbert Charles Harris Stan Gomoll 3933 South Peoria 104290th Lane. NE PO Box 904038 Minneapolis. MN 55434 30 Vintage Trader Tulsa. OK 74105 6121784 -1172 9181742-7311 Robert D. "Bob" Lumley 34 Mystery Planelby George Hardie, Jr. Dale A Gustafson 1265 South 124th St. 7724 Shady Hill Drive Brookfield. WI 53005 Page 22 Indianapolis. IN 46278 4141782-2633 317/293-4430 Steven C Nesse Gene Morris 2009 Highland Ave. 115C Steve Court. R.R. 2 Albert Lea. MN 56007 Roanoke. TX 76262 507/373-1674 817/491-9110 FRONT COVER ... Rudy Krens' Stea rman aloft over the Dutch lowlands. 5.H. OWes" Schmid (Photo by Ben Ullings) 2359 Lefeber Avenue Wauwatosa. WI 53213 414m1-1545 REAR COVER ... Ken Hyde gets a prop from Charlie r Sincerely, Jim Haynes Bushnell. Illinois Ja ck Romkey has several scrapbooks full of his father's memorabilia from which we hope to have more in th e future.- Ed Split personality Dear Mr. Phelps, I own a Bellanca 7 ACA Champion (N9165L) built in October 1971 but later converted to a Continental A-65-8 engine from an Aeronca 7 AC. Does my plane qualify as a Classic (replica) under EAA-A/C rules? Derby do original landing gear was retractable. Rowland L. Hall Dear Mark, It collapsed on the first landing (high Northfield , Illinois Yesterday, we recei ved the March speed taxi run) at Muroc and was re issues you were so kind to send. We placed by a rigid tripod gear. The top Unfortunately not. Ask the fellow who very much appreciate your thoughtful photo on page 39 shows fixed , the bot had 1955 wings on a 1956 Tri-Pacer. ness . GREAT!' I almost had a "hissy tom photo retractable . When he tried to park in the Classic fit" I was so excited to see the fine I was very sorry to hear of the pass area at Oshkosh, that "mean old" Art article Glenn Buffington wrote and the ing of John Hatz, with whom I spoke Morgan told him he could leave his gorgeous front and back covers. Once at Rockford and Oshkosh on numerous wings there , but would have to taxi the again your picture displays and cover occasions. fuselage down to transient parking were perfect. I know Dub, Sue, Eric. or so the legend goes. - Ed. Bill and all the gang involved in the Cordially, flight are as pleased and excited over John Underwood Classic appetite the recognition in your magazine as Glendale, California Dear Editor, Mom would be. I called Dub Yar I'd like to renew my membership to brough last night to share the excite Air King fling the AIC Division. Please find my en ment and he hadn't received his March Dear Mark, closed check. Just a note of interest issue yet - so I described it to him . I received my VINTAGE AIRPLANE and observation. I'd like to see more A million thanks again for remember today and want to compliment you on input and articles on the Classic section ing us. the fine re-write of the Air King mate of our association. Antiques are great rial (March) . You did a superb job of and I love 'em. We have to appreciate Jim and Pat (Thaden) Webb re-arranging, adding to and subtracting them and the people able to put time Leonardtown, Maryland from the original manuscript. I was and money in them to preserve them. glad you consulted with Jack Romkey Classics, as we term them, fit into a False Ford Funk on the project as he knows everything different and larger segment of avia Gents , there is to know concerning the Air tion. There are a bunch of them! We It's always a pleasure to get VIN King. fly them. We use them daily as their TAGE AIRPLANE because just about There is, however, one error in the availability can make the difference everything else is junk mail, most avi story and looking over my original between a passive aviation enthusiast ation magazines included. I was very manuscript I can't take the responsibil and an active aviator. We need active interested in reading about Joe Funk's ity for it. The Dole Air King was not aviators. Classic owners need the sup experience with Ford conversions a monoplane. It was basically the same port of others who are rebuilding and (Vintage Literature, January). How airplane except that it was fattened up restoring birds that just sit on airports ever, I am obliged to call your attention to provide space for fuel tanks (not around all of us . I see Cubs, Champs, to the fact that the Funk airplane shown enough, evidently). Incidentally, Steve Tri-Pacers, T-Crafts, Cessna120s, is not of the Ford B genre. It is a post Lacy did get off the ground with the 140s, 170s, early model l72s and war model, I think with an 85-hp Con Dole Air King from Roosevelt Field , others that look like they would like a tinental. Long Island in the New York to new lease to fly. Again, I say the an In reference to the Northrop Avion Spokane, Washington race a month tiques are great. If r could afford the EX-I (Mystery Plane, January): No after the Dole race. That is quite a story lUXury I would own one, but the far mention was made of the fact that the in itself. Jack has all the newspaper greater number of Classics out there 4 MAY 1990 should tell us that these are the planes on the March issue seem to be in order. page 19 . He was a fine gentleman and that are part of more of our lives. Many In "Aero Mail" on page 4 there is a our good neighbor and friend . I am of us would like to see this "half' of letter from Harry Gann about the sure that his many friends applaud the the AlC Division promoted more by Northrop "Gamma." When we have an fact that he is still remembered with articles in VINTAGE AIRPLANE. authority such as Mr. Gann writing high regard. Thank you! When we think back, probably the about early Douglas and Northrop his Lastly, let's look at the lower photo most enjoyable flight we ever made tory, then we'll never be in trouble on page 27 (1929 Air Derby). Some was in a classic, because that was what about the facts of our heritage. readers might like to know that Mrs. was available. Then in 'Time Capsule" on page 8, Henderson was widely recognized for the upper left hand photo caption her talent as silent screen star, Marion Tom Wadsworth states, "this photo is late 1920s vin Marsh before she and Cliff were mar Roswell, New Mexico tage." Sorry to be a thorn about this, ried . As she is such a refined lady, Door man but that picture was taken at the 1939 she'd never tell you that. So it's up to Dear Editor, National Air Races in Cleveland, us to toot a hom for her. Dub Yar Our EAA Chapter 54 is currently re Ohio. In the background there is a line brough deserves a great deal of credit building an early I 940s vintage of trees . These were located in the for his relentless search for that part of Taylorcraft L-2B . We are having diffi city's Metropolitan Park on the west aviation history and then spending the culty locating drawings to fabricate the ern boundary of the airport. In front of time and money to restore the Travel door and door frame assemblies . If you the trees is a white band at ground Air. The crowning achievement was could help us out in this matter we level. The band is the perimeter chain the re-creation of its moment in his would be most appreciative. You may link fence . During the races, the fence tory. I regret missing that magic mo contact me either by phone (614/422 was covered by white canvas with the ment - seeing Susan Dusenbury in 2202); FAX (612/422-2940); or direct SOHIO (Standard Oil of Ohio) logo flight. Thanks to Mr. Buffington we mail at 1543 North Oxford Street, St. spaced out about every 50 to 100 feet. can at least read about the facts . Paul, Minnesota 55117 . If my memory isn't faulty, that Curtiss I hope that you and all the good Pusher was flown in a comedy routine people at Headquarters are well. Sincerely, by the great Canadian pilot, Dick Gra Thanks for a very interesting issue .• Kevin Sislo nere while his son Dick, Jr. flew a St. Paul, Minnesota Bleriot. Next is the Air King article (page Cordially, March on 14). You mention Claude Flagg's as Ted Businger Dear Mark, sociation and the part he played in that (EAA 93833, AlC 233) A few observations and comments organization on page 15 and again on Evening Shade, Arkansas that flew at EAA Oshkosh ' 89. EAA (January) the Mid East Regional Fly-In President Tom Poberezny said, "We (MERFI) was incorrectly referred to as thank Dan for his dedication and sup the "Murfee" fly-in in Marion, Ohio. port as a Director of the Antique/ How that happened I'll never know. C)ews Classic Division and his service as an -Ed. advisor before that. Dan will continue to be active in EAA and the division's Dole Air King activities in the future ." Compiled by In the story on Glenn Romkey , Shukri Tannus and the "Air King" D.B. Cooper 727 retired Mark Phelps (February) it was incorrectly stated that In 1971, D. B. Cooper jumped into the National Airways System entrant world-famous anonymity (an approp in the Dole race was a monoplane. It riate oxymoron) after commandeering was in fact a biplane, a modified ver Thank you, Dan Neuman a Boeing 727 and demanded $200,000 sion of the "Air King" widened to ac After serving on the Antique/Classic in $20 bills and four parachutes (he commodate the additional fuel tanks. Division Board of Directors for five threatened to force a crewmember to Thanks to Jim Haynes for writing and years, Dan Neuman has resigned. Dan jump with him in one of the chutes to flagging the error. started in aviation as a teenager work ensure that they weren't booby trap ing in the Stinson factory in Michigan. ped) . After he baled out of the rear He became a corporate pilot and flew door of the Boeing on a flight from A Cat III Funk? a Sikorsky S-38 flying boat later flying Seattle, Washington to Portland, Ore The following message came from for Northwest Airlines from which he gon , no trace of Cooper or the money Phil Vogt of West St. Paul, Minnesota has since retired. Dan has restored a has ever been found. Now, the 727 to the Funk Aircraft Owners Associa number of antique aircraft including a from which he jumped has been retired tion's newsletter, the "Funk Flyer." Siemens Waco that now hangs in the and will be dismantled for parts in terminal building at Wold-Chamber Greenwood, Mississippi. "Some years ago, a local Funk pilot lain Field (Minneapolis-St. Paul Inter - I seem to have forgotten his name national), a Buhl Pup and one of the MERFl's law - took off one very early morning that Jennies (now owned by Kermit Weeks) In the story "Culver Cum Laude" had heavy patches of ground fog in cer- VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5 tain areas. His gas tank was not full so little nav lights and began to feel his these years and still don't know how he headed for a nearby small airport way in a very slow taxi towards the gas to land in fog?'" that had 80-octane fuel. As he drew pump. near, he found only about 100 feet of "He stopped and shut down the en Travel Air runway peeking out from the dense fog gine. Stepping nonchalantly out in The EAA Aviation Foundation's that covered all else. The temptation front of several shocked pilots who Travel Air E4000 is undergoing some was just too much . With a mean stood in the fo g with their mouths work in preparation for its return to chuckle, he chopped power and came hanging open down to about their flying status. Tracy Johnson is cur around to make a very cautious slow knees, he calmly began to pump gas rently adding tape to the lower wings approach to this open end. He touched into his airplane . An older, highl y-skil and the upper wings are next to be co down softly and immediately rolled led local pilot stepped forward and vered in Stits. The fu selage fa bric is into the fog . Visibility ahead was only asked , ' How in the hell did you do still punching strong and the Wright 10 to 15 feet but the markers going by that?' J-6 engine was give n a top overhaul his left window helped him to stay on "The unknown pilot, keeping a within the last three years. Tracy hopes the runway and roll to a safe stop. Now straight face with some difficulty re the Travel Air will be flying some time for full effect, he flipped on his poor plied , ' You mean you've fl own all this summer .• EAA SUN 'N FUN 1990 AWARD WINNERS Antique Classic AJRCIWT NNUMBER OWNER(S VADDRESS AJRCIWT NNUMBER OWNER(SVADDRESS GRAND CHAMPION Luscombe Phantom N27'l:1 Doug Combs &linda Gamble, GRAND CHAMPION C·14OA N9633A Jock Shahan. 5353 Antelope Box 6613, Incline V1l1age, tw Lane,Stone Mountain. GA 89450 30087 RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION Spartan Exec N47W No,Canaan Aviation, BEST RESTORED · UP TO 100HP Aeronca7AC NC82650 Xen Motsinger, 955 Gabriel Rd. No,Canaan,CT 06018 Cayce,SC 27033 GOLDEN AGE 1927 · Eortler WacoGXE N4453Y John Stilley, P,O, Box 1808, BEST RESTORED · 101·165HP Belkmco NC27284 Bill Scott,5650 Stigall Rd. Cape Canaveral. fL32920 KernefSllille,NC 27284 SILVER AGE 1928-1932 New Standard D·25 NC930V John E. Thomson,604 Camellia BEST CUSTOM · 101·165HP S~nsan 108 N9338K Mike Meyers. 3806 Towanda Ave. Ellenton,fL34222 Rd. Alexandria. VA 22303 CONTEMPORARY AGE fairchild 24R NC77695 Jomes Coolbaugh, 205 N, BEST CUSTOM · OVER 165HP Swift N80555 Scott Anderson. 2781 NE 7tIh St. 1933·1945 Sheridan Ave. Deland. fl32720 Pompona,fL BEST CUSTOM 8oeingA·75 N302DR Homer Dobb~ Mobile,AI. BEST OF TYPE C·195 N195MV Joseph Rowe Jr. 776 Nortolk BESTlW{lt ERA Cessna T·50 AT178 N69072 Jomes Kramer,11275 'Mngfoot Pine Ln. VeroBeach. fL32963 Dr. Boynton Beach. fL33437 BEST OF TYPE C·17OA N1773D Bob Inscoe,2031 Santa An~ 1 1es BEST B1·PlANE WacoQCf·2 N11440 John p, Mortin &J immy Ray, Rd. Orlanda,fl 32806 6719 KingsmoorWay, Miami BEST OF TYPE Luscombe8A N45504 James B,Zaz~ RI, 3, Box 389 Lak~ fL 33014 Cartihage,NC 28327 BEST MONOPlANE Howard DGA 15P NC22423 fred J, Kirk. 2888 NE 26th St" lADtES CHOICE C·170 N2592D Warner Sweet. p,O, Box 307, ft.Lauderclale,fl33305 Wakefield. Rt 02880 BEST OPEN COCKPIT Ryan PT·22 N59418 Larry W.Lee,3036 Wallace OUTSTANDINGAJRCIWT Aeronca 15AC N1459H Richard folsom 635 Coral Dr. Circle, Affanta,GA 30339 Nokomis. fl34275 BEST CABIN HowordDGA N66294 florida Airmoffve Inc. 2633 OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT Piper J.3 N3244N Joan Peters. 2336 Ookleaf Ln. Lantana Rd"Lantana,fl33462 Kissimmee,fl34744 OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT WacoUPf·7 N32158 Tom flock p,O, Box 166,US 41 N, OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT PiperJ.3 N87881 L~e 'Mheeier, 4410 Camino Rockville, IN 47872 Real, Sarasota, fL34433 OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT WacoUPf·7 N29328 Steve Brown. 6050 Clinton Rd" OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT Stinson N389C Butch Walsh, RR1, Box 306A Terre Haute, IN47805 Arrington. VA 22922 OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT WacoUPf·7 N29943 Dole Cunningham. RR 1. OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT Super Cub NC1038A Dawson Ransome,8m Sf Box 489,Rockville, IN47872 72nd Ave. Leeward Air Ranch, OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT S~nson N8471 Bob Hedgecock, RI, 3, Box 324, Ocola. fl32671 Bomesville, GA 30204 OUTSTANDING AJRCIWT Stearman N5592L Jerry Stadtmiller,5500 NW 21 Terr,20·H, ft. Lauderclale, fl33309 Sun 'n Fun Grand Champion Antique. Sun 'n Fun Grand Champion Classic. 6 MAY 1990 MEMBERS' PROJECTS by Norm Petersen This deHaviliand Tiger Moth, PH-III, SIN Nl 917, was built by the Morris Motor Com pany in England in 1943, being placed in an RAF training squadron. In 1948, it saw service at RAF Cranwell, using numbers FAF-K and FEI-D. Placed on the civilian market in 1954, it sold for 81 pounds! In 1955, it was sold to a priest in Germany who used it to cover his remote parishioners under the registration of D-EDEM. In the 1960s, it pulled gliders at Golnhauser along with advertising signs. By the 1970s, it fell into disuse and was stored until 1978 when it was sold in Holland. The second Dutch owner lovingly restored the old biplane by 1983 and flew it some 50 hours over the next six years. On December 16, 1989, a young Dutch pilot named Marien van Schie bought the Tiger Moth and is now in the process of learning to fly a biplane taildragger. On the first flight, the engine quit at 200 feet! However, Marien reports, "The plane feels fantastic, it is aerobatic, but is hard to land or start with a strong cross wind. However, flying in the air towards the sunset with the exciting sound of the engine, is an experience hard to forget. I cannot imagine that I will ever sell the plane." Marien van Schie poses in front of his deHaviliand Tiger Moth, PH-III, based at lelystad, Holland. VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7 '90 Phocos by Mark Phelps When Don Luscombe designed the Model 8 he made the firewall round in case those "new" flat engines didn't work out. John Korlovich decided to see how the airplane could have looked with a Ken Royce engine. Ed Sweeney and his Aerocar in their natural habitat - surrounded by admirers. 8 MAY 1990 Larry Lee and son, Darius apply elbow grease to their blind ing PT-22. Not all the beauties were on the flight line. This shiny Luscombe turned up in the camping area. VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9 CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY thusiastic service appears to be more true AVIATION STUDY - 1930 of aviation than of any other form of trans The Curtis Publishing Company had ~ LIb.-a 0 '/4.n~hive§ portation . given editorial support to aviation in the m.-ed(). " We believe a day will come when over pages of its magazines since 1920. Its main the main airways connecting large cities, publication, SATURDAY EVENING POST, United States and 9,973 pilots . During frequent planes with capacity for 20 or had presented more than 66 articles and 1929 the aircraft industry produced 3,542 more passengers will pass on regular stories about aviation between 1920 and civil aircraft. schedules well loaded with passengers, 1930. Authors for these articles included The results of the study were presented mail and express." William B. Stout, 'Five Falacies of Avia in a book called: THE AVIATION INDUS They also stated that the smaller cities tion"; Brig. General William Mitchell , TRY, A STUDY OF UNDERLYING will be serviced with smaller planes acting "Aircraft Dominate Seacraft"; and Juan de TRENDS which was published in 1930. as feeders for the larger lines. la Cierva, "A New Way to Fly." Curtis Comments from the book follow. publishing also covered aviation in its other PRI VATELY OWNED PLANES publications, LADIES HOME JOURNAL POTENTIAL MARKET The editors believed that the number of and THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. "We have confidence that the aviation individuals using privately owned planes The advertising department of Curtis industry will develop into a large and sound for sport and for business would steadily Publishing Company did a survey of avia industry . This confidence is based on two increase. " Many men find a joy and exhil tion in 1929. The department decided that facts. First, the idea of air travel is sound. aration in flying. Those who own planes collecting current statistics would be futile Air travel is certainly the quickest, we be find much possible in week-end trips for because of the rapid change in the industry. lieve can be made the most comfortable pleasure and in quick trips to distant points It seemed clear to them that whatever con and, ultimately , we think probably will be for business appointments which otherwise tribution they might be able to make to avi the least expensive method of long-distance would not be practicable. ation would need to take the form of a study travel. "We believe that even under present con of the underlying trends and the special re "Second, the industry in all its phases is ditions there will be a steady growth of the quirements of the industry. manned by young men with enthusiasm and market for individually owned planes, but To this end, in July, 1929, Curtis bought with faith in the future of the industry. En so long as the price of planes remains near a new Ford 4-AT Tri-Motor the 1929 level and the cost of with which to tour the United learning to tly is several States and gather data. This hundred dollars, the market for Ford, serial number 62, regis individually owned planes for tered as NC-8400, was powered pleasure purposes is limited." by three 300-hp Wright J-6 en gines. The plane was fitted as CRASH OF 1929 a flying office and the company The book stated that 1930 hired Lieutenant A. W. "Jake" would prove to be a crucial year Gorton of the US Navy as the for aviation. Before the stock pilot. Jake Gorton was a three market crash, the thrill the pub year veteran of the Navy's rac lic received from Lindbergh's ing team and was the first pilot tlight had been converted into to hook a Vought UO-I on the an enthusiastic woting for avia airship LOS ANGELES. tion . Cities had appropriated large sums for airports, the THE TOUR public had invested in aircraft From July II , 1929 to Janu company stocks, people gathered ary 15, 1930, with representa at airports for holiday after tives of the Commercial Re noons and paid admission to air search Division, the Curtis Ford ROUTE OF THE CURTIS PLANE IN AVIATION STUDY meets. JULY n, 1929-JANUARY 15, 1930 flew 207 hours and covered After the crash, when the about 20,387 miles. During the winter season of 1929-1930 tour the representatives of Cur came on, production slowed tis interviewed leading manu down and it looked like few facturers, distributors, airport manufacturers or transport com managers and other leaders in panies could show profits. The aviation. Also, in order to as editors asked "How real is the certain the attitudes of owners aviation industry'1" and prospective owners of air They answered: "We are not planes, they sent out two mail disturbed by winter gloom. In questionnaires. One question ever year of the earlier period naire was sent to all listed own of the automobile industry ers of aircraft and the second to came despondency at times ap students enrolled in aviation proaching despair. But as the schools. days began to lengthen, hopes At the time of the study there began to rise and by spring the were 12,363 civil aircraft in the 20.381 MILES FLOWN IN 201 HOURS industry was once more in full 10 MAY 1990 HOI/! Many Hour] UJtd Annually? PREFERENCE OF OWNERS COMMERCIAL AND NO~·CO~D.tERCIAL COMBINED A majority usc the plane less than 300 hours annually. Non- p" p" Commercial uot Commercia l u" NUMBER OF PLACES OBIN OR OPEN ] SO hours or less . 202 37.6 80 12.3 151- 300 hours 221 41.2 252 388 301 - 500 hOllrs 64 11.9 177 27 .3 501 - 800 hours 30 56 93 14 .4 801 - 1200 hours . 19 3.5 32 49 Over 1200 hours I .2 15 2.3 Total 537 100.0 649 100.0 Owners in the lower income group usc their planes less than those in rhe higher income group. In What Year Did You uarn to Fly? TYPE OF PLANE TYPE OF WINGS A substantial majority of non-commercial owners and more than 45 per cent of commercial owners have learned to fly in the past three years. p" p" Noo-Commcrcial un! Commercial un! 1927-1929 . 321 57 .0 233 45 .5 1924- 1926 . 95 16.9 108 21.1 1920-1923 . 52 9.2 69 13 ·5 1914- 1919 . 82 14.6 96 18.7 Before 1914 13 2.3 6 1.2 Total 563 ]00.0 512 100.0 swing. A similar period of gloom is likely The average plane from the answers the company's tour but after leaving service to be an annual affair in the aviation indus would be a three or four place cabin land with Curtis it went through eight different try and the present gloom in no way dis plane, monoplane, with dual controls and owners before being destroyed in 1953. courages us . There is, however, one di s a single 150 to 300 horsepower engine, According to FAA records compiled by quieting thought. Public enthusiasm has not having a cruise speed of 95 to 100 miles Richard Allen, the Ford was sold in July been convened into personal flying. To per hour. 1931 to Arthur Kunder of New York City. maintain popular interest we believe this Miscellaneous facts concerning airplane The title changed hands to the Dispatch must be done. Hence , 1930 seems to us a owners from the survey showed that 79 per Corporation, also of New York City , in crucial year, for we doubt whether popular cent of the non-commercial pilots owned July 1933. (Mr. Kunder was listed as Sec interest in aviation - willingness to pay their own plane. As for hours flown by retary-Treasurer of the company.) taxes for airpons and to forego dividends non-commercial pilots, 37.6 percent flew The next owner was a Mr. C. M. Ewan , on investment - can be long continued less than 150 hours per year but 41.2 per also of New York City, who received title unless it is shown that the general public cent flew from 151 to 300 hours. Over 87 in February 1936. Four months later it was will take to flying ." percent of the commercial pilots flew over sold to Manitowoc Air Service of Man 151 hours per year. itowoc, Wisconsin. In October it went to RACING Most of the pilots answering the ques Holland Bryan of Paducah, Kentucky . The authors of the book felt that though tionnaire were recent pilots, with 45.5 per In 1937 it was owned first by Keith Can air racing and stunt flying was imponant in cent having learned to fly between 1927 tine of Detroit , and the next year by Mary the initial stages of the aviation industry to and 1929. From 1920 to 1926,34.6 percent Cantine of Akron, Ohio. It was sold to its show what the product could do, it was of the pilots had learned to fly and 18 .7 last owner, the Johnson Flying Service of now a time when such activities would ren percent had learned to fly during World Missoula, Montana, in March of 1941 . The der diminishing returns. War I. Of the non-commercial pilots, 42 .7 plane was not licensed until June of 1946 "People know what airplanes are like, percent used planes for pleasure only and and was active after that till it crashed in they know that they can cross the continent 10.2 percent for business only. Of the com August of 1953. According to William in hours instead of in days, they know that mercial pilots 49.9 percent used planes T . Larkins in his book THE FORD the ocean has been crossed by a plane, they only for commercial use. STORY, the Ford was being used by the have pretty well exhausted their thrill out Johnson Flying Service for Spruce Bud of watching dare-devil feats; they will still FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY worm spray work near Boulder, Colorado pay admission to see more dare-devil feats , The book concluded, "Many difficulties when it ran into a static cable strung above but these do about as much good to aviation have been encountered, but out of these a powerline. The cable broke and a piece as the crash of railroad engines at the fair difficulties there will emerge a great and of it was caught in the tail surfaces. As the grounds did for rai I passenger traffic. " powerful industry, sound and stable, effi plane was coming in for an emergency cient in manufacturing, and with its mer landing, the cable caught on a powerline QUESTIONNAIRES chandising methods safely founded on the pole, tearing the tail surfaces from the The results of the questionnaires that firm rock of national advertising." (Re Ford, bringing it in on its nose, completely were sent out to the aircraft owners and member the book was written by the adver destroying the plane and killing the crew. aviation students were presented in the tising department of a large magazine pub It appears that this Ford had to be one book's appendices. The first question re lishing company.) of the most active of those produced, start poned was "What would you consider ideal ing out its career with over 20,000 miles for your purpose if you could have a plane FORD 4-AT-62 NC-S400 in 1929-30 and continuing in service, ex built just to suit you?" This Curtis Ford was not only active on cept for the war, till J953.• VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11 May 4-6 - Burlington, North Carolina. lahoma. Tel. 918/299-2532. Crestwood Street, Simsbury, Connecticut Burlington Airport. Sponsored by Antique/ June 1-3 - Merced, California. 33rd 06070. Tel. 203/651-0328. Classic Chapter 3. Contact Ray Bottom, Merced West Coast Antique Fly-in. July 14-15 - lola, Wisconsin. Airport c/o Antique Airways, 103 Powhatan Park Merced Municipal Airport. Contact breakfast and Old Car Show. Central way, Hampton, Virginia 23661. Tel. 804/ Merced Pilots Association, PO Box 2312, County Airport, lola, Wisconsin. Call 414/ 722-5056. Merced, California 95344 or call Dick Es 596-3530. May 5-6 - Winchester, Virginia. Win cola at 209/358-6707. July 14-15 - Delaware, Ohio Airport, just chester Regional EAA Spring Fly-in. Win June 3 - Tunkhannock, Pennsy lv ania north of Columbus ARSA . 9th annual EAA chester Airport . Sponsored by EAA Chap Skyhaven Airport. Fly-In Breakfast. Chapter 9 Fly-In. Food, camping & more. ter IR6. Contact George Lutz, Tel. 703/ 8:00am-2:00pm. Contact Steve Gay, Contact Art TenEyk , 6141363-6443 or Alan 256-nn Skyhaven Airport, Tel. 717/836-4800 or Harding 614/442-0024. May 6 - Rockford, Illinois. EAA Chapter 717/836-3884. July 20-21 - Collingwood, Ontario. Sec 22 Annual Fly-i n Breakfast. Mark Clark's June 8-10 - Middletown, Ohio. Fifth Na ond Annual Gathering of Classic Aircraft Courtesy Aircraft. Greater Rockford Air ti onal Aeronca Convention. Aeronca fac sponsored by Collingwood Classic Aircraft port. 7:00 am to noon. ATIS 126.7. Con tory. Includes factory tour and visit to Foundation. Collingwood Airport (NY3). tact Wallace Hunt. 815/332-4708. USAF Museum. Contact Jim Thompson, Contact Doug Murray, 5 Plater Street. May 12-13 - Reading , Pennsylvania. President, National Aeronca Association, R.R. No.3 , Collingwood, Ontario, Canada Reading Aerofest at Reading Regional Air PO Box 2219, Terre Haute , Indiana 47802. L9Y 3Z2. Tel. 705/445-5433. port. Contact Paul R. Doelp, R.D. 9, Box Tel. 812/232-1491. July 20-21 - Coffeyville, Kansas . Funk 94 16, Readin g, Pennsylvania 19605-9606. June 9 - Newport News, Virginia. 18th Aircraft Owners Association Reunion. Tel 215/372-4666. Annual Colonial Fly-in. Sponsored by Contact Ray Pahls, 454 S. Summitlawn, May 19-20 - Hampton, New Hampshire. EAA Chapter 156 at the Patrick Henry Air Wichita. Kansas 67209. Tel. 316/943 Fourteenth Annual Aviati on Flea Market. port. Contact Chet Sprague , 8 Sinclair 6920. Hampton Airfield , Hampton, New Hamp Road , Hampton , Virginia 23669. Tel 804/ July 27-August 2 - Oshkosh, Wisconsin. shire. Anything aviation related okay. No 723-3904. 38th Annual EAA Fly-in Convention , fees' Camping on airfield. Contact Mike June 10 - Aurora, Illinois Municipal Air Hart , Hampton Airfield, Route US I. "EAA Oshkosh '90." Wittman Regional port. EAA Chapter 579 Fly-In/Drive-In N0I1h Hampton, New Hampshire. Tel. Airport, Oshkosh Wisconsin. Contact Breakfast & Airport/FBO Open House: EAA, EAA Aviation Center, Oshkosh, 603/964-6749. 7:30am-Noon. Contact Alan Shackleto, May 20 - Benton Harbor, Michigan. Wisconsin 54903-3086. Tel. 414/426 Tel. 708/466-4193 or Bob Rieser, Airport 4800. Fourth Annual EAA Chapter 585 Dawn Manager. Tel. 708/466-7000. Patrol Breakfast/Lunch. Includes boat and August 19 - Brookfield, Wisconsin. 5th June 16-17 - Coldwater, Michigan. Sixth classic car show. Ross Field, Benton Har Annual Ice Cream Social sponsored by Annual Fairchild Reunion , Branch County bor. Michigan. Contact AI Todd, PO Box EAA Antique/Classic Chapter 11 at Capitol Memorial Field. Contact Mike Kelly, 22 61, Stevensville, Mi chigan 49127. Tel. Drive Airport. Contact George Meade , Coldwater Drive, Coldwater, Michigan 616/429-2929. 5514 N. Navajo Avenue, Glendale, Wis 49036. Tel. 517/278-7654. May 25-27 - Atchinson Kansas. Kansas consin 53217. Tel. 414/962-2428. City Area Chapter. AAA Fl y-in at Amelia June 22-24 - Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. August 24-26 - Sussex, New Jersey . 18th Earhart Memorial Airport. Contact Lynn Greater Oklahoma City AAA Chapter Fly Annual Sussex Air Show. Sussex Airport. WendL 7509 Conser, Overland Park, Kan in. Contact Dick Darnell, 100 Park Avenue Call 20 I /875-7337 or 702-9719. sas 66204. Tel. 913/642-5906. Building, Suite 604, Oklahoma City, Ok September 8 - Chico, California. Chico May 26-27 - Vidalia, Louisiana. Ferriday lahoma 73102. Tel. 405/236-5635. Antique Airshow. Chico Airport. Contact Fly-in sponsored by EAA Chapter 912. June 23-24 - Orange, Massachusetts. Chico Antique Airshow Committee, 6 St. Concordia Parish Airport. Contact Jerry 14th Annual New England EAA Fly-in. Helens Lane, Chico, California 95926. Tel Stallings, Rte . I, Box 19D, Ferriday, Orange Airport. Contact James O 'Connell 916/342-3730. Louisiana 71334-9709.3181757-2103. at 413/498-2266. September 15-16 - Rock Falls, Illinois. May 25-27 - Watsonville, California. June 23-24 - Longview, Texas Gregg Fourth Annual North Central EAA "Old 26th Annual Antique Fly-In. Tel. 408/496 County Airport. Wings Over East Texas Fashioned" Fly-in. Pancake breakfast Sun 9559. Annual Air Show. Contact Robert Perry , day. Contact Dave Christansen at 815/625 May 25-27 - Carlsbad, California (near Rt. 2 , Box 159BA, Kilgore, TX 75662. 6556. San Diego). 4th Annual Twin Bonanza As Tel. 214/984-7521. October 6-7 - Sussex, New Jersey Air sociation Convention, Olympic Resort June 28 - July I - Mount Vernon, Ohio. port. Fly-In sponsored by EAA A/C Chap Hotel & Spa. Contact Twin Bonanza As 31 st Annual Waco Reunion . Wynkoop Air ter 7 and EAA Chapters 238, 73 and 891. soc iation , 19684 Lakeshore Drive, Three port. Contact National Waco Club, 700 Info: Bill Tuchler, 2011797-3835; Konrad Ri vers , M149093; Phone or FAX 616/279 Hill Avenue, Hamilton , Ohio 45015. Tel Kundig, 201 /361-8789/FAX 2011361 2540. 513/868-0084. 5760; or Paul Steiger, Sussex Airport, 2011 June 1-2 - Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Bi July 7-8 - Emmetsburg, Iowa. Second 702-9719. plane Expo '90, th e National Biplane As Annual Aeronca Champ Fly-in and fly-in October 13-14- Hickory, North Carolina sociation's Fourth Annual Convention and breakfast. Emmetsburg Airport. Contact Municipal Airport. EAA Chapter 731 5th Exposition . Frank Phillips Field, Bartles Keith Harnden, Box 285, Emmetsburg, Annual Fly-In. Contact Norman Rainwa ville, Oklahoma. Free to members ofNBA. Iowa 50536. Tel 712/852-3810. ter, 1415 Linwood Place, Lenoir, NC For membership information, contact July 13-15 - Simsbury Connecticut. 2nd 28645 ; evenings 704/578-1919, or Lynn Charles Harris, NBA, Hangar 5, 4-J Avia Annual Northeast Stearman Fly-in at Crowell, 113 Auld Farm Road, Lenoir, NC tion , Jones-Riverside Airport, Tulsa, Ok Simsbury Airport. Contact Jim Kippen, II 28645, 7041754-2723. 12 MAY 1990 "DO YOU KNO ME?" The Resurrection of a Piper /-4 Cub Coupe by Piper NC24829 with help typing from I am a 1-4 Cub Coupe, serial No. B.J. Shoup 4-742. My birth date August 31, VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13 1939. For a few years after that I flew airplane! What will they think of next? included hours of tying , taping, spray with the birds. I performed well , Then BJ, the Mrs. put in a request, "I ing, sanding, fussing and fuming. The everyone said, until that fateful day want a starter! I don't want to prop the Stits process became very expensive. when the wind blew a terrific gale and plane." A friend calls Poly Brush "bubble turned me on my back. My wings were Wings were fit and new cables were gum" and that is just how it acts. It damaged and so my lonesome days made . Rudder and elevator cables were even looks like it - pink! There were began . I sat in a series of hangars, gar fit and all were swaged with Jim 's a few of those words spoken again. ages and barns. Sometimes parts of me Nicopress tool. The trim line was made My landing gear was in good condi were left out in the elements. I was with two pulleys and the line doubled tion but brakes were difficult to come sold four times in less than 20 years. forward and back. After much sweat by as heel brakes are not common. BJ Ron Shoup located me in Llano. and a few words, the crank on the roof wanted toe brakes but Ron said, "NO! Texas. bought me and returned to one of the cockpit turned perfectly. NO! I want it as original as I can make of the airfields where I had sat for sev I now have a new red headliner with it , and you got your starter." Of course eral years with no one wanting me . two zippers installed. One is to access Jim agrees with Ron. Ron started to study my problems and the trim-tab crank and the other is lo One of my doors had broken in two analyze my needs. The project seemed cated over the storage deck for access pieces and the other was badly impossible, but Ron's friend, Jim, an A to the rear fuselage. crunched. They had to be welded and I. agreed to work with him to restore me . My stabilizers and elevators are of new aluminum was used to replace the First I had some ribs that could not stainless steel. That makes me special old bent up cover. Both sliding win be repaired, but the men found enough Ron says. He even found some stain dows were replaced. serviceable ones elsewhere. Sandblast less steel exhaust pipes and a muffler My seats. hard and heavy, were re ing the metal parts came next. Then all for me and my C-85 engine. While try placed with comfortable upholstery. the metal was treated with a rust retar ing to locate a tailwheel for a J-4, Ron My floorboards, cracked and rotten. dant and primed with epoxy . talked to Andy Palmer in Mississippi were replaced with mil-spec aircraft Scouring and scavenging, Ron lo who had another J-4 . Ron and BJ made mahogany plywood then covered with cated an unused, original J-4 boot a trip to 01' Mi ss and a few days later red carpet. Windows were installed in cowl. After a quick phone call it was here came the other J-4. Andy and his the baggage deck area. on its way to Texas. I began to think Mrs. delivered the J-4A-l 083 on a tri Original instruments were another Ron was serious about getting me into axle, 20-foot trailer. concern but 1 now have a Cub oil pres the air. He talked some strange modern Stits envelopes, Poly Brush and sure and temperature gauge and a tach language including words such as tapes had been purchased by one of that operates clockwise to go with my loran. intercom, transponder, CHT, my previous owners so the next six C-8S. They are both cream-colored EGT, and others. A radio in an months were spent in covering. This and, would you believe it , they came 14 MAY 1990 out of an old box stored in aT-hangar There seem to be several Coupes of into the phone network , pronto. After just a few feet away! When Ron saw my vintage around. Ron joined the Cub three or four calls he located the Cub them , he started jumping up and down Club and gets frequent news reports. in Port Lavaca. Richard Tanner had as if he had struck gold. He laughed One day he read that a research person bought J-4A , 4-735 as it came off the and just about cried at the same time . assembly line 50 years ago and it is He was almost afraid to ask the price . still flying . We are just seven serial Then came the best part - FREE! ! ! numbers apart, so we were being All my other instruments are standard . finished the same week in Lock Haven, There is a loran on the lower right side Pennsylvania. J-4, 4-735 was used as of my panel, a radio and intercom on a camera platform for a whooping the left with push-to-talk switches on crane research program in south Texas. the top of both sticks. /I AFTER THREE Another fellow also has a J-4 based on The cost of the restoration has been the same landing strip. Just as Ron tabulated on B1' s computer. Every nut OR FOUR CALLS began to work on me he read about and bolt has been tallied. Perhaps more another J-4 in Ozona, Texas and made was spent than was necessary but how HE LOCATED a trip to see it. Joe Boy Pierce and his often do you find a "new" boot cowl wife, Sammy, have two J-4s. They use that is 50 years old? THE CUB IN them to fly fences on their ranch. On August 12, 1989 my new engine There's a J-4 from Bangs, Texas that had its first run up. Everything was is coming to Austin to be restored and A-OK so back to the hangar we went PORT LAVACA" one in the Fort Worth area. There is for the mounting of my wings. My first another being restored in Rockdale, flight was the Sunday before my birth just a few miles away. At the Kerrville day. Jim flew th(; test flight, then took fly-in we located two more , a J-4E in Ron up . Ron kept his promise and had Harlingen, Texas and J-4A in Hous me in the sky before I turned 50. Ron 's ton , both flying. That's seven of II second goal was to check out and fly known to be flying in central, north me to the Kerrville, Texas Fly-in for was looking for a particular plane in and south Texas. That's a great rep 1989. Well I was in the first row where Texas that was built in 1939 and, ac resentation for a small family totaling everyone could see me. WE MADE cording to records, was owned by the 1,250 originals. IT!!! ! same person all of its lifetime. Ron was WHO ELSE IS OUT THERE? ? ? • VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15 Field Elevation, -13 feet. Rudy Krens at EAA Sun'n Fun '89 16 MAY 1990 N ear the city of Lelystad, Holland a diverse group of pilots fly some unique airplanes-starting at 13 feet below sea level. L elystad airport is located some 30 in training with the three flying schools nautical miles northeas t of on the airport. Ultralight aircraft have Amsterdam's Schipol Airport and south their own grass strip and gliders occupy of the city of Lelystad, Holland. The the grass st rip just north of the main airport is built in the Flevopolder which runway. This makes Lelystad the only is one of several polders claimed from field in Holland with so many categories by the Ijsselmeer (formerly Zuiderzee). of users. Good pilot discipline is the The airport is the fastest growing secret as the field is totally uncontrolled. Walter van Tilborg general aviation field in Holland with (This is equivalent to some 12,000 nearly 100,000 aircraft movements an smaller airports in the U. S... Ed.) nually. This is not too bad for an airport Non-profit organizations at Lelystad EDITOR'S NOTE... We are indebled without runway or approach lights, thus include th e NVAV, which is the Dutch 10 Rudy Krens (EAA 334248) for en limiting operations to sunrise through Amateur Aircraft Builders Association couraging his good friend, Walter van sunset. Present plans call for lighting (EAA Chapter 664); the Early Birds Tilborg (EAA 92129) to submit this ar installations to be made by 1991. Association, a group of proud owners of ticle on the very active group ofantique The airport is home base for a variety such aircraft as a Tiger Moth, a Gipsy airplane enthusiasts based at Lelystad of commercial companies and non Moth, a 1929 Fleet Moclel 2, a Bucker Airport in Holland . .. Norm Petersen, profit organizations. Ag planes operate Jungmeister and Jungmann, two Fokker Associate Editor from the same runway as student pilots Triplanes under restoration ancl many VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17 more in the pipeline. In addition, the V.M.L. (initials for the Flying Museum Lelystad) have a hangar housing some 15 aircraft which are available for view ing by the public. All of these aircraft are kept in flying condition and include a 1941 Klemm KL-35D, Stearman PT-13D, de Havilland Dove and Chipmunk and several homebuilt aircraft such as VP-l, Pottier P-80S (a French all-metal single seater) and a U.S. registered Smith Miniplane. Also in the hangar is an original design homebuilt by Cor Dijkman Dulkes called the Dijkman Dijkhastar and registered PH-COR. This particular airplane was the very first homebuilt to receive an airworthi 111::;...... ____....:...-_____-,-"...-,___--,---..,...... ,....,....------' ~ ness certificate in Holland in 1976 and N1858 Plentenpol Alrcamper :I: is the second effort of the builder. The original project by Dulkes was an "il legal" aircraft and only flew once - but the proof that it flew was enough to convince the authorities that aircraft could be designed and built by amateurs. Cor Dijkman Dulkes is now building his third aircraft of all-wood construction featuring retractable land ing gear this time. Four Fokker S-ll " Instructor" two/three-seater trainer aircraft form the demonstration team called "Fokker Four." The S-ll was a product of Fok ker Aircraft and the prototype of this basic trainer first flew in 1947. Produc tion took place in Holland, Italy and '.~;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~fi~~~;~~iii~~~~,;... ~ ~§ InBrazil addition, with a 50total S-12 of 365derivatives aircraft built.with tricycle gear were built in Brazil. Hol .><~ '-_ ...... ;i2iloii_...c...... 2::S~~~IGI!:=_o.!!iI:!~~I:SII~~IIl!!liI~...... ::s....sc...... :;.;;o.l=~~1iIIIii/B ~ land, Israel, Ital y, Brazil, Paraguay and N82AM Tiger Moth Bolivia all used this military trainer. Most S-11 and S-12 aircraft had been withdrawn from use by the late 1960's and many were acquired by private owners. One of the aircraft presently flying in the musum group is a Stearman PT-13D with U.S. registration N68987, SIN 75 5053. This beauty is owned by IBM executive, Rudy Krens, and it arrived in PH-COR Holland in 1989. It is perhaps the "lowest flying Stearman in the world" as Lelystad's elevation is a minus 13 feet! Rudy's association with Stear mans began some years earlier when he purchased a 450 Stearman. However, the R-985 engine turned out to be rather ~ expensive to feed as fuel prices are U about double those in the U.S. When ~ ~ Rudy had a chance to make a good deal -===""-""-"- ___--'~ with Phil Dacy Aviation of Harvard, Illinois, he took the opportunity and 18 MAY 1990 bought a brand new 220 Continental powered Stearman and the 450-hp machine was sold to a gentleman in Belgium where the aircraft is part of a growing collection of oldies at Kortrijk Airport. N68987 was originally built in 1942 and was given its civil registration in the early 1950's. The aircraft in present form is the very professional work of Pete Jones and his people at Air Repair, Inc. of Cleveland, Mississippi. Buying a Stearman is one thing, but getting it over to Europe is another! Flying is out of the question so you must hire the r:: services of a professional for disas o E sembly, crating and loading into a sea "0 container. ,.~ r:: The task of putting the Stearman ~______~__~~__~~____~______~__~~~__~~x" together once in Holland, was put on the shoulders of Richard van As, a former KLM mechanic and builder of a Benson B-8M gyrocopter and owner of an ex Dutch Air Force PA-18-135 Super Cub. Richard had previous experience in 1987 when he and the author traveled to the USA to buy a Cessna 172. Be cause the 172 had survived Richard's treatment and now flies the Dutch skies, Rudy Krens had courage enough to ac cept the challenge to go and get the Stearman himself. Plans were made, rejected, changed and finally accepted and airline reserva tions were made in April 1989 for to Richard and myself fly to Memphis, c o Tennessee. Rudy was already in the US E and met us in Memphis where we rented "0o ~ .Y. a car and drove to Cleveland, Mississip C pi. The next morning, we drove from ~____~______~~~~~~~~~~~~______~______~x" N168G 0 H Gipsy Moth the motel to the airport and Rudy had his very first look at N68987. Sitting on the ramp in the morning sun, the newly rebuilt Stearman looked beautiful! After a warm reception from the Air Repair people, we toured the facility including the wing rebuild shop in near by Leland, Mississippi. What a joy to see this "old-fashioned" work being ex pertly done by young people. Phil Dacy, Jr. had meanwhile flown down from Illinois in his Twin Beech to finalize the paper work on the Stearman and as part of the agreement, it was decided to have a ferry pilot from Air Repair fly N68987 to Montgomery County Airport at Conroe, Texas, just r:: north of Houston. This was done for o E two reasons; it was near the port of "0 ~ Houston for shipment and Richard had .Y. r:: crated the Cessna 172 from this airport. x" In addition, I had flown from this airport N131 EB Coso-built Jungmann VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19 This Piper Twin Comanche was once owned and flown by the legless RAF fighter pilot. Sir Douglas Bader. in 1987 while earning my private pilot ticut on business while I flew to Hous shipped out of Houston, arnvmg at license and last, but not least, it is the ton to join Richard and began disman Lelystad airport in May 1989. The home of Gary Hudson and his firm, tling the Stearman. With the invaluable Stearman was assembled and test flown General Aviation Services, plus Gary's help of Gary Hudson and his crew plus for the third "first flight" on May 27th. lovely wife and the most important item my brother, Jan who lives in Houston, (See VINTAGE AIRPLANE March, - Gary's toolbox! Gary Hudson is an the Stearman was taken apart, piece by 1990, page 7). N68987 is now the eye aClive member of the Big Thicket piece. It was surely a strange feeling to catcher in the Flying Museum Lelystad Squadron of the Confederate Air Force, take apart an aircrafl that had just under hangar. based at the airport. 10 hours on the recording tach since But this is not the end of the story. With plans all arranged, we drove " new." The only snag experienced was The hangar in which the Flying back to Memphis and Richard con that the forklift used in 1987 to load the Museum collection is housed is too tinued on to Indiana where he was to Cessna 172 wa s no longer at small and has no room for additional disassemble a Smith Miniplane which Montgomery County airport. As usual, aircraft. Add to that the ever increasing had been purchased by one of our EAA Richard provided the solution. He costs for hangarage - so - the owners put members in Holland. Meanwhile, Rudy simply walked over to the National their heads together and afler a slow and I continued on to Tampa, Florida Guard depot at the field, explained the start, plans are now finalized and our and enjoyed a few wonderful days situation and returned with a National "own" hangar should be ready towards resulting from our secret and sinister Guard crew and a mobile crane! (And mid-1990. With space for 25 to 28 timing - Sun ' n Fun '89! It was all for free!) aircraft, the hangar will be operated by Rudy's first trip and my second visit to The 40 foot container had room for a non-profit organization named "De this beautiful spring fly-in and we care the Stearman and many other goodies. fionier Hangaar" - PH being the inter fully avoided the mention of warm and These were all loaded inside including national code for Dutch registered civil enjoyable weather when Richard called a complete Lancair kit by Neico Avia aircraft. on the phone from Indiana and told of tion for one of the NYA Y/EAA Chapter Participants in the project are owners the ice and snow! 664 members in Holland. When every of aircraft, the Fokker Four demonstra Rudy went on to Hartford, Connec thing was finished, the container was tion team, their sponsor, the Dutch Dove 20 MAY 1990 Aviators' Wall. Association and the NV A V/EAA Chap Some of ter 664. The Flying Museum Lelystad will occupy the ground floor of the of LELYSTAD'S AIRCRAFT fice part but will not own the hangar or CASA (Bucker) N131EB N/A Noorduyn PH-KLU any of the aircraft. The latter are made Jungmann AT-16ND available for viewing by their Cessna 185 N61826 Piaggio P-149D D-EEGD and owners.Also in the hangar will be the DH Gipsy Moth N168G (with D-EERP "Aviators Wall," an initiative of Max fake reg. Pietenpol N1848 van Oort, a retired KLM captain. We VH-AFN) Aircamper hope that this wall will ultimately hold DH Tiger Moth N82AM Piper PA small metal plaques with the names of DH Tiger Moth ZS-DLK (reg. 160 Twin PH-COM (ex. all persons who ever obtained a civil in South Africa) Comanche Douglas Bader pilot's license in Holland. Plaques al DH Dove N531WB aircraft) ready installed include the name of His (Devon) (former RAF Piper PA-18-95 PH-VCY Royal Highness, Prince Bernard of the aircraft) Pottier P-80S PH-JML Netherlands. DHC Chipmunk G-BDET (Winnie Mae Aircraft that can usually be found at Dijkman PH-COR builder Wil Lelystad airport are listed below and Dijkhastar Post) visitors to the Early Birds or Pionier Fleet Model 2 NC724V Scheibe SF-23 D-ELFE and Hangaar collections are welcome. It is Fokker S-ll PH-ACG, Sperling D-ENZE advised, however, to call one of the Instructor PH-AFS, Smith N788 following numbers prior to coming to PH-HOG, Miniplane the field. Weekdays are the best for PH-HOK, (WB-4) visiting . • PH-HOL Stearman N68987 PT-13D Call in Holland: 03200-53443 or Klemm KL-35D D-ECCI Stolp Starduster G-KEEN (ex 03202-699 or 01899-11206 Too N800RE) VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21 EN ROUTE TO ... ROUGH RIVER, KENTUCKY ... . . . IN A RYAN PT-22. WORLD WAR II TRAINEES NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD. by Ron Ferrara 22 MAY 1990 A gathering of plastic - every kind of EZ known to man. I could hardly believe my ears when cally refused . everything was ready. About 8:45 I Ted Beckwith called and suggested Woody Woodward and his wife began to wonder where everyone else that we, "Jump in the PT-22 and fly Anne were going along on the flight in was and why they were waiting until up to Rough River, Kentucky for lunch their newly completed Bucker lung the last minute to get this show on the tomorrow." Suddenly it was a new mann. Needless to say, I arrived a little road. At 9: 15 Ted pulled in and opened day. I had to dig out my leather helmet early, about 8:30, just to make sure the hangar doors whereupon he beheld and goggles and plan the route on my sectional chart. When my wife heard the words, "airplane," "cross-coun try," and "Kinner" she let out a sigh and shook her head, knowing that our leaking sink would have to drip for another week. "Meet me at about 10:00 in the morning," Ted said and hung up. Oh boy! I was up at dawn the next day to check the weather - cool for central Tennessee with clear skies and calm winds. It was a PT-22 day if ever there was one. Ted is a 20-year Delta captain and an avid antiquer who has owned, over the years, a Monocoupe 110 , a Stinson Junior, a Fairchild 24 and pre sently flies the Ryan. He also is work ing on a Cessna C-34, has a Warner powered Great Lakes under construc tion and an Aeronca K waiting in the wings. The PT-22 was supposed to be an interim airplane, but so far all offers Ted has received have been categori Traditional Beckwith tiger tail waves over the Tennessee countryside. VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23 a vision of the complete aviator. "A the Ryan and [ were becoming more into the slipstream to see around the little early, aren't you? Love the out and more anxious to get going. I was exposed cylinders [ could see every fit. " haunted by the nagging fear that some thing' This was flying at its best. My We pushed the Ryan out into the still one would change th e plan and the trip feet were cold, my nose was running chill morning air and Ted began his would be postponed at the last minute. and the wind blew my helmet off and routine. The preflight of this antique My fears proved groundless as Ted wrapped it around my neck . My gog tends to be a little different from that climbed into the rear cockpit at exactly gles wound up covering my chin. [ was of a more modern airplane. [n addition 10:00. "Gets kind of loud up there. a natural, made for this kind of flying , to the normal checks such as oil and You may want to use these," he ye ll ed even though [ suspect Ted was having fuel quantity, the second thoughts prop must be ro about his demented tated through to passenger. check for hydraulic We levelled off lock in the lower at about. 1,500 feet cylinders of the heading north. It Kinner. [ climbed is difficult to ex into the fron t cock plain how different pit and Ted showed it is watching the me the magneto landscape pass be switch, fuel shut low from an open off and other con cockpit. I actually trol s. "Pump the felt like [ could throttle a couple reach out and touch of times, start it the occasional cloud on the left mag along our route. The and switch to both grass looked greener. after it starts," he the fall colors brighter, instructed. One pull and the sky bluer on the wooden prop than [ had ever ex and the Kinner came perienced. To me to life as if it. too there is nothing Illore "I like your airplanes beHer," said the aHendant at Rough River. had been wonder rewarding than fab ing what the de ric wings, a round lay was all about. engine, and an air As [ sat in the cock speed indicator that pit wanning the oil reads in miles per [ li stened to the en hour rather than gine purring like knots. I was ex a kitten and the periencing an era smile on my face in which I have al just kept getting ways feIt at home. bigger. My first We had escaped impression of the the tensions of the inside of the Ryan high-tech world was that this was below . It was as if a very stout air we were in a time plane. It was very warp as I looked substantial with large over my shoulder aluminum sections and saw the sil held together by houette of the Bucker large aluminum riv in loose fornlation. ets. It is unusual We were cruis to see an aircraft ing about 90 mph . so obviously built Ted Beckwith and the Ryan. Out of habit more to withstand severe loads and student mistakes. as he handed me a set of earplugs. casionally looked down at the oil pres Just as the oil reached operating tem absentmindedly put them in my pocket sure gauge, rock steady at 80 psi. Ac perature Woody and Ann in their beau with every intention of using them tually the oil pressure was one of the tiful brown and tan Bucker touched once airborne. Soon we were climbing few instruments available to look at in down on the grass and rolled to a stop. into the cold crystal sky. All thoughts the front cockpit. [ must admit that the Crouched in the cockpits, the two were of earplugs dissipated when [ heard the constant oil pressure was comforting more than a little chilled from the early symphony of the short-stacked Kinner, considering all the hangar tales one morning flight. As they talked with Ted more sensuous than Ravel's Bolero . hears about the reliability of old radial about altitude, route and the like, both This was great! Sticking my head out engines. The Kinner seemed out to 24 MAY 1990 prove th at th ese tales were slanderous. pect were aimed at me . I ignored them . front cockpit and I didn ' t ha ve a chart . It never missed a beat th ro ughout the Rough River State Park is a tribute it was a test of my pilotage skills. I entire trip. to Kentucky. It is one of a number of was pleasantly surprised at how re As we approached Rough Ri ver a state parks with airstrips on it or very sponsive thc aircraft was. truly a plea white streak sped past the nose. The close by. The parks offer camping. res sure to fl y. The Bucker pulled up into odd shape quickly materialized into a taurants and cabins at very reasonable tight formation. lingercd for a few Long-EZ enroute to the same destina rates. It is a shame that more states miles. and with a beautiful aileron roll tion. Looking down at the airport re don 't follow thi s example and make departed to the west. We delayed over vealed a veritable plastic convention as airstrips a part of their parks, just as Russellville . Kentucky to watch a Pitts there was every kind going through its of EZ known to paces . complete with man parked on the smoke . What a d if ramp. We were defi ferent perspect ive nitely in the minor from which to watch ity today. As Ted an airshow. Even cu t the power we tuall y we resumed began an i mpres our journey to the sive descent, al south and approached though the airspeed the airpark and home. remained stuck on Ted made another 80. He had warned textbook landing me about a rather and we shut down. high wing loading The music of the that resulted in a Kinner remained steep glide, but I with us long after had not expected the propeller came this. I suppose that to a stop. I de this was a design layed leaving the feat ure that made cockpit. trying des the airplane suit perately to make able for training the moment last the young pilots Ryan PT-22 at the Beckwith hangar - note the tiger tail hanging from the left wing. just a bit longer. of World War II. The traditional wip As we taxied in ing of the oil. well we got a lot of known to those who st range looks. We fly behind radial parked nex t to a engines. was soon lonely looking Stin completed and the son. closer to our hangar door secured. era. The EZs milled This adventure was around the pumps over except in mem looking like a swarm ory and in antici of ali en insects all pation of the next beaks-down. feed offer. ing in preparation As I drove away for departure. One I thought about all after another they the people who fly made low passes but have never ex and I must adm it perienced such a th e iI' performance flight. How much was impressive. Two they are missing' different genera I had a flight lesson tions of aircraft were to give later that sharing a point in The Bucker - at home in the grass. day in a modern the space-time con airplane. Fortunately tinuum. As we pulled the Ryan to the they do golf courses. The expense for me the student was my son Matt. pumps, the attendan t looked from the de would be offset by the addi ti onal use preparing for his private ticket. He had parting glass menagerie to the Ryan , then that would be generated. been exposed to Ryans , Cubs, Stinsons to the Bucker and said. " I think I like After waddling back to the planes and had hi s first Stearman ride at the your airplanes better." I had to agree. we were soon headed south. It was Tennessee Taildraggers fly-in a few We amb led over to the lodge for a now mid-afternoon and the sun re years ago. When he saw the helmet , very substanti al buffet lunch. There flected off th e yel low wings. It was goggles and the wild look in my eyes were some uncalled for comments wanner now and I was flying the last he just sighed and shook his head. In abo ut "limited useful load" that I sus- leg. Since there was no compass in the some ways he is a lot like hi s mother. . VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25 CHAPTER CAPSULES by Bob Brauer left to right: Felix Sanchez, Francisco Halbriter, Abel Debock and Guido Jontza at Rodriguez, December 1989. CHAPTER 12 "EAA Division Antiguos & Clasicos, Filial 12 , Argentina" This is how we look in San Andres De Giles, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the location of our most distant chapter. The chapter was formed in 1982 and received its AIC charter the following year. According to Presi dent, Abel Debock of San Pedro, "We formed the group at that time be BUENOS AIRES cause our country was having a more ARGENTINA 26 MAY 1990 comfortable econom V3 which he be ic situation than we lieves to be the old have now , and there est example of this was a lot of interest kind of aircraft still in restoring antique flying. Pedro Gadda aircraft." Even though flies an Aeronca mar.y antique and 7 AC Champ and a classic airplanes have Cessna 170A in ad been sold abroad, dition to the Heath some to museums in and a Stinson Re England , interest in li ant that he re restoration is still stored. (Pedro must high . Abel empha live in his shop.) sizes that, "There are Examples of planes many planes to re other members fly store, many others are Focke Wulf 44J, being worked on and Bucker Jungmann, many flying ." The Stearman, Fairchild high costs involved 24, Fleet, Curtiss have not decreased E16, Waco and interest in restoration, a number of and the activities of J-3s, Aeroncas, the chapter have cap Luscombes, Stinson tured the attention of Abel Debock's Rearwin Sporster. 108s, an Ercoupe, European enthusiasts. PA-II, PA-12anda Chapter meetings Cessna 140. are held the second AIC Chapter 12 Sunday of each holds its annual month at the Airport business meeting of San Andres de during the weekend Giles located about closest to September 55 miles from 21, the first day of Buenos Aires. There spring south of the the members ex equator, at the Aero change technical in Club Mercedes, Bue formation, try to nos Aires. [n the solve problems of re second weekend of storation and share December, Chapter information about 12 works with EAA, the AlC Divi EAA Chapter 722 sion and Oshkosh. (Buenos Aires) and There are currently Ultralight Chapter 23 80 members who live (Esperanza) to orga throughout Argentina nize the annual EAA and the club keeps a Argentina convention detailed record of in Rodriguez, Buenos each aircraft owned Aires. At this event, by the members. each category of air There are several "Gran Campeon Antigue" Bucker Jungmann at Rodriguez 1989. craft is judged with restoration projects grand champion awards currently under way. Chapter Vice Abel owns and tlies a 1938 Rear presented similar to the procedure at President, Guido Jontza of Olivos, win Sportster 9000. His 18-year Oshkosh. [n addition, the chapter at is restoring a Beech Staggerwing. Sec old son, Alex, who passed his tlight tends events organized by the air force retary Pedro Gadda of Matheu, the test last September also tlies the plane. of Argentina and by private clubs. chapter's secretary, is working on a Guido, now working on the Beech Abel has written aviation articles for Heath Parasol which Abel believes is Staggerwing, reconstructed and tlew a the magazine AERODEPORTES and the oldest in existence. Treasurer Felix 1928 Curtiss Robin until he recently submitted photographs he took of our Sanchez of Haedo is restoring both a sold it to the RAF Museum in England. convention activities when he and his Fleet 2 and a Focke Wulf 44J. Carlos This aircraft was the 1986 Grand wife attended in 1986. Chapter 12 has Schmidt is reconstructing a 1926 West Champion in Argentina and won the a great deal to be proud of. [n spite of land Widgeon 3 equipped with a Cirrus Phoenix Prize given by the Federation adverse economic times , Abel reports Mk2 engine. Abel reports that these Aeronautique Internationale in Paris in their AIC Chapter is the best organized are only a few examples and that there 1987. Felix, in addition to his res and strongest aviation group in South are many more . toration projects, flies a 1928 Davis America. • VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27 tence of the letter. It states, "Fueling from small non-conductive jerry cans is possible without bonding. Any other PASS IIIQ fueling (metal drums, tanks, hydrant carts) must observe the industry stan dards for grounding and bonding." I'm also asking whether someone --1] out there has actual experience with this situation and has words of advice to pass on to the rest of us - someone An information exchange column with input from readers. intimately acquainted with the research done on these plastic Jerry cans, who can give us the straight scoop. CAN we or CAN'T we? AIRCRAFT FUELING FROM JERRY CANS "In the February, 1990, "Pass It to Buck," Lt. Col. Hilbert described a common practice of fueling small air craft from service or "jerry" cans. His experience prompted some questions about grounding provisions for this procedure. "Fueling aircraft has long been rec ognized as inherently dangerous. A vi ation gasoline (Avgas), automotive gasoline (auto gas) are both classed by the National Fire Protection Associa by Buck Hilbert tion as "flammable" meaning they (EM 21, Ale 5) have a flash point below 100 degree F. P.O. Box 424 (37-8 degree C.). Turbine fuel is usu Union, IL 60180 ally classed as "combustible" but may also have a flash point close to 100 More Fueling Around roll of copper screening is placed in degree F. A static electric spark can A lot of interest has been generated side the can and into the spout and the ignite these fuel vapors with explosive by the article on fueling with plastic grounding wire is attached to it. This results. "jerry" cans . I've had calls and letters precludes any build-up of static elec 'This static spark results from the from numerous people expressing con tricity and effectively defuses an inhe difference in electric potential between cern and giving instances of disastrous rently dangerous situation. the aircraft and the fueling equipment. experiences as a result of this type of Then I get a piece of mail today from By grounding the aircraft to earth and fueling. Phil Trusty of Murfreesboro, Tennes grounding the servicing equipment Wade Lowry called in from see Chapter 419, and it quotes National (truck, tank, drum), we achieve an ef Lakeville, Minnesota and told me Fire Protection Association standards fective zero charge and little difference about a Luscombe incident years ago. for, "Plastic Containers (Jerry Cans) in the two potentials. A fellow stuck the spout in the wing for petroleum products." They are "The flow of fuel through pipes, tank, laid the can on its side and let it quite specific as to metal cans and pumps and hoses can create a static gurgle into the tank while he carried when they get to paragraph 3, they charge so we bond the aircraft and fuel on a conversation with Wade a short blow it all away by saying: Jerry Cans ing equipment to each other to neut distance away. Shortly they heard a that are plastic - "non-conductive" ralize any build up. WHOOMP! and saw the wing and (RE: NFPA 30) then there is no re "There are several government and airplane in flames . The Luscombe was quirement for bonding. Note that lab industry standards/guidelines on air destroyed. tests found electro-static building up craft refueling . Most major airlines and Art Morgan called this morning on a non-conductive cans is not of suf aircraft manufacturers go to great from Milwaukee; you all know Art, ficient voltage to ignite a fuel air mix lengths to provide procedures and in he's that mean man driving the cut ture. If you are more comfortable using struction for refueling. These include: back Volkswagen at Oshkosh who har a bond, then a simple wire between - Air Transport Association of rasses all the parking people and the any metal fitting (handle, lid , spout) America Specification No. 103 airplane drivers. Art has a Luscombe and the aircraft should be adequate as - National Air Transportation As and a Bellanca Cruisair. He had some suming the bond line has adequate con sociation "Refueling and Quality Con advice to offer on the subject and said tinuity. trol Procedures" that Tony Bingelis had written an arti I'm asking our Editor Mark Phelps - U.S.D.O .T .lF.A.A. Advisory Cir cle several years ago on grounding the to print the entire letter and r want to cular No. 150/5230-4 plastic cans. From Art's description, a also call your attention to the last sen - U.S.D.O.D. Military Standard 28 MAY 1990 1548B pIe wire bond between any metal fit had already been to all the sources I - N.F.P.A. 407 ting (handle, lid, spout) and the aircraft recommended. Want to be a hero? Find "Specific standards for flammable liq should be adequate assuming the bond the man a prop hub! uid containers include: NFP A 30 line has good continuity. Also, "Doc" Fowler checked in "Flammable Liquids" and ANSI! "Lastly, there are the general pre from Spokane, Washington. Now here ASTM D3435-80 "Plastic Containers cautions for aircraft fueling: is a guy who knows how to live. His (Jerry Cans) for Petroleum Products" I. Away from ignition sources. Air dental offices are on the Spokane Inter "To address Lt. Col. Hilbert's situa craft radios and electricals turned off, national Airport. He commutes from tion, may I suggest: no smoking. his home about 30 miles away in his I. Check the jerry cans for the Un 2. Fueling should be performed out Cabin Waco , parks it near the office derwriters Laboratory (UL) "li sting" side , so as not to threaten the hangar door and when hi s work is done he number. UL "lists" but does not "ap and other aircraft which may also act flies right back home where he can prove" which is done by Factory Man as ignition sources. continue working on his other project, ual (FM) labs. The cans should be 3. Use an effective fuel mat to pro a Marquart Charger. "Doc" has a listed/approved for storage of Class I tect the aircraft finish and de-ice boots. number of projects to his credit flammables. Typical features of "Fueling from small non-conductive Bucker, Stearman , Waco. He's an lAC "safety" cans include self closing lid , jerry cans is possible without bonding . enthusiast as well as Antique/Classic . heavy construction, clear labeling for Any other fueling (metal drums , tanks , Nice hearing from you, "Doc!" contents and a spark guard mesh screen hydrant carts) must observe the indus Craig Johnson, the full-time inside the filler spout. try standards of grounding and bond mechanic for the Anchorage, Alaska 2. If the cans are metal , then good ing." Civil Air Patrol and I had a long talk contact between the metal aircraft tank about CAP activities in Alaska. They opening and the can should provide Telephone log have 34 airplanes - nine Beavers and adequate bonding. Use of a funnel, Some interesting calls this past an assortment of Cessna 185s, 206s corrosion or oil/paint may cause month (February and March). John and one lone Varga. They have a enough insulation that a bonding line Dooden from Tulsa, Oklahoma called. number of float planes and have four between the aircraft and the can should We had a very interesting conversation slips right on the Lake Hood base. be used. about his desire to locate and restore Now this Lake Hood seaplane base is 3. If the jerry cans are plastic " ... or even scratch build a World War I sort of like Chicago's O' Hare Field, non-conductive .. . " (RE: NFPA 30), project. Anybody out there got a Spad only on water. I, for one, have never there is no requirement for bonding. or a Fokker he wants to part with? Con seen activity like they have there. Note that lab tests found electro-static tact John. Airplanes of all sorts and descriptions charge building up on non conductive Phil Kraus from New York, building arriving and departing in droves. They cans is not of sufficient voltage to ig an SE 5A in a Manhattan loft, no less, operate in and out, under and around nite afuellair mixture. If you are more is in bad need of a Hisso E propeller the International Airport traffic without comfortable using a bond, then a sim hub. I wasn't able to help the man. He causing any conflicts that I know about. Of course they do this routinely so they are well aware of jet wash and IS YOUR MEDICAL all the rest of the problems of sharing space with the 747s and the other BIG CERTIFICATE CURRENT, BUT boys. We could all take lessons from these pilots. Maybe we can encourage NOT VALID? an article or two about that style of flying from them . How about it, Reprinted from the FAA Flight Standards Communicator Bushies? We are all familiar with FAR 61 .23 which would preclude you from pass I've also heard from San Jose, and the validity periods of the various ing your flight physical, then your California. Curt Barnhart, who works medical certificates, i.e. the Third physical certificate is no longer valid for Azure Technology, had some Class Medical is valid for 24 months; even if the expiration date is still a words with me about the Azure Long Second Class for 12 months; and the long way away. Another way to say Ranger and how best to use it. I tried First Class is good for six months. this is that a current medical can very it in my C-3 and it doesn ' t like flying However, how many pilots are familiar well be a non-valid medical. so low or so slow or the unshielded with FAR 61.53? This regulation states Quite often pilots are overheard ignition system. I guess I really hadn't that. .. "No person may act as pilot in making a statement to the effect that, any reason to complain . command or in any other capacity as a "I need to get this medical problem Word from Sun 'n Fun Ray Olcott, required pilot flight-crewmember cleared up before my physical because former A/C Division board member, is while he has a known medical defi I know that I will never be able to pass that wife Jo, one of the nice ladies who ciency, or increase of a known medical the exam in my present condition." work at the Red Barn during EAA deficiency, that would make him un The main concern that you as a pilot Oshkosh, is recovering nicely after able to meet the requirements for his must be aware of is that if you should open heart surgery. I'll be seeing her current medical certificate." Just what operate an aircraft in your "present when Dorothy and I get to Florida to does this mean? Basically, if you know condition" you may endanger yourself, work Sun 'n Fun. 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VA Fallsington, PA 19054 (21 5) 295-4115 VINTAGE AIRPLANE 33 by George Hardie Jr. mance that he later scaled up the wing cellule, which used the M6 airfoil, and applied it to a Waco 10 , the result being the Waco Taperwing. Charlie moved on to greater fame with Great Lakes, joined Eastern Airlines in 1930 after placing third in the American Cir rus Derby." Other answers were received from Ron Davenport of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia; Byron Calomiris of Long Beach, California; Charley Hayes of Park Forest, Illinois; Nathan Rounds of Zebulon, Geogia; Casimier Grevera of Sunnyvale , California; Cedric Galloway of Hesperia, Califor nia; Bob Armstrong of Rawlings , Maryland . And now a word about our Mystery Plane column . One reader asks if we print the names of all who answer. In T his month's Mystery Plane was was in a Iightplane race at Philadelphia deed we do, provided the letter is dated another victim of the Great Depression in September 1926. The 32-hp Bristol on or before the deadline date. This is years. The company was well known Cherub engine, borrowed from Lew not intended as a contest, although in those Golden Years. The photo was Reisner of Kreider-Reisner, Charlie's there is an element of challenge here. submitted by John Denny of employer, quit on the 7th lap. This was A review of past Mysteries will under Springfield, Oregon. Answers will be due to sabotage. Charlie said he found line the value of the historical knowl published in the August 1990 issue of two inches of mud in the fuel tank, and edge that these columns have added to VINTAGE AIRPLANE. Deadline for a mechanic later told him who put it our archives. During the years that I that issue is June 10th. there. The name is now an honored have been editing the column, only Readers of our companion magazine one in the Aviation Hall of Fame. seven Mystery Planes were not iden EAA EXPERIMENTER had no diffi "The Meyers Midget never flew tified. I feel we are making a signifi culty with the February Mystery Plane. again - too badly damaged. Charlie cant contribution to recording aviation Inadvertently it was featured in the was so impressed by its brief perfor history.• "Lightplane Heritage" column in the February issue. Nonetheless, we re ceived a number of correct answers. Wayne Van Valkenburgh of Jasper, Georgia writes: "The February Mystery Plane is the Meyers Midget. It was designed by Charles Meyers and entered in the U. S. Lightplane contest in 1926. Charlie worked for the Great Lakes Co. and designed the Great Lakes trainer, and later worked for Waco and was largely responsible for the Waco Taperwing. He later went to work for Eastern Air lines and retired from Eastern in the 1950s." John Underwood of Glendale, California has sharp eyes. He writes: "How can the Mystery Plane be a mys tery with the name clearly painted on the side? Builder Charles W . 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