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... give a great gift ,,"- EAA Antique/Classic Membership! t~ Share the Excitement ofEMs Antique/Classic Division with a Friend or Family Member Ifyou love the airplanes ofyesteryear, chances are Antique, Classic and Contemporary aircraft and you know other people who love them too. Help the people who fly them. theAntique/Classic Division grow by recruiting new members. As a member, you already know what being an The EAAAntique/Classic Division is a person's Antique/Classic member is all about, or do you? best resource for information and stories about As a member, you receive: • 12 color-filled issues of VINTAGE AIRPLANE, the official magazine ofthe Antique/Classic Division. • The exclusive "members only" Antique/Classic aircraft insurance program administered by AUA,Inc. • During EAA OSHKOSH, educational workshops and seminars offered by fellow members who are experts in their field. • The opportunity to network with other members with similar interests through the various Type Clubs in the Antique/Classic community. ..\ Recruit New Members and Win Some Great Prizes , ...,. • Recruit just one new member and receive a stylish Use the new member application form enclosed cap featuring the Antique/ Classic Division logo. within this issue of VINTAGEAIRPLANEto sign up your new member. Don't miss this chance to en • Recruit two new members- in addition to the roll a friend! cap, get anAlC jacket patch and a free video tape. • Sign up three new members and you'll also #1 receive a FREE one yearAlC Division member ~ ship renewal. NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN J{ e {p !J 0 u ..r ,d... i vis ion g row! EDITORIAL STAFF Publisher Tom Poberezny Editor-in-Chief December 1997 Vol. 25, No. 12 Jack Cox Editor CONTENTS Henry G, Frautschy Managing Editor Golda Cox 2 AlC News AriDirector Mike Drucks Computer Graphic Specialists 4 Aeromail Olivia L, Phillip Nancy Hanson 5 AlC Volunteers/Trish Dorlac Associate Editor Norm Petersen Feature Writer 10 What Our Members Dennis Parks Page 13 Are RestoringiNorm Petersen Staft Photographers Jim Koepnick LeeAnn Abrams Ken Lichtenberg 13 The Buhl Sport Airsedan Advertising/Editorial Assistant !H.G. Frautschy Isabelle Wiske EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INC, 19 More EAA Oshkosh '97 OFFICERS President Vice-President Espie "Butch· Joyce George Daubner 21 Mystery Plane!H.G. Frautschy P,O, Box 35584 2448 Lough Lane Greensboro. NC 27425 Hartford. WI 53027 910/393-0344 414/673-5885 22 1998 Type Club List Secretary Treasurer Steve Nesse Charles Harris 2009 Highland Ave. 7215 East 46th SI. Page 19 Alberl Lea. MN 5tI.1J7 Tulsa. OK 74145 26 Pass It To BucklE.E. "Buck" Hilbert flJ7/373-1674 918/622-a400 DIRECTORS John Berendt Gene Monis 28 Welcome New Members 7645 Echo Point Rd, 5936 Steve Court Cannon Falls. MN 55009 Roanoke. TX 76262 flJ7/263-2414 817/491-9110 29 Membership Information/Calendar Phil Coulson Robert C. "Bob" Brauer 28415 Springbrook Dr. 9345 S, Hoyne Lawton. MI 49065 Chicago. IL 60620 616/624-6490 312/779-2105 32 Antique/Classic Merchandise Joe Dickey John S, Copeland 55 Oakey Av, 1A Deacon Street Page 32 Lawrenceburg. IN 47025 Northborough. MA 01532 812/537-9354 508/842-7867 Dale A. Gustafson Sian Gomoll 7724 Shady Hill Dr. 104290th Lane. NE FRONT COVER. , , The only flying Buhl CA-3D/E Sport Airsedan is piloted over Indianapolis. IN 46278 Minneapolis. MN 55434 eastern Minnesota by retired Northwest Airlines Captain Harry Thibault, This is 317/293-4430 612/784-1172 the original airplane used by Packard Motors to flight test their diesel aircraft Robert Uckteig Jeannie Hili engine in 1930, The Buhl is owned by Greg Herrick's Yellowstone Aviation and 1708 Bay Oaks Dr, P.O, Box 328 Harvard. IL is part of the Golden Wings Flying Museum, EAA photo by Jim Koepnick. shot Albert Lea. MN 5tI.1J7 60033 flJ7/373-2922 815/943-7205 with a Canon EOS-l n equipped with an 80 -200 mm lens, 1/250 sec, @ fll on 100 ASA slide film, EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by EAA's Director of Dean Richardson Robert D. "Bob" Lumley 6701 Colony Dr. 1265SouIh 124thSt, Flight Operations. Joe Schumacher. Madison. WI 53717 Brookfield. WI 53005 608/833-1291 414/782-2633 BACK COVER, , ,-Four Hours Out" is Glen Winterscheidt's oil painting that was S.H. 'Wes' Schmid Geoff Robison selected the 1997 EAA Sport Aviation Art Competition's Par Excellence award 2359 Lefeber Avenue 1521 E, MacGregor Dr. winner. as well as the judge's choice as the winner of the theme award. Wauwatosa. WI 53213 New Haven. IN 46774 - Antique/Classic Aircraft,· See the A/C News section on page 2 for more on 414/771-1545 219/493-4724 this pretty pointing, George York 181 Sloboda Av, Mansfield. OH 44906 Copyright 1997 by the EAA Antique/Classic Division Inc, All rights reserved. © 419/529-4378 VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antique/Classic Division. Inc. of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center, 3000 Poberezny Rd.• P,O. Box 3086. Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54903-3086, Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh. Wisconsin 54901 and at add~ional mailing offices. The membership rate for EM Antique/Classic Division. DIRECTORS EMERITUS Inc. is $27.00 for current EM members for 12 month period of which $15.00 is for the publication of VINTAGE AIRPLANE, Membership is open Gene Chase E.E. "Buc k" Hilbert to all who are interested in aviation. 2159 Carlton Rd, p,o, Box 424 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to EM Antique/Classic Division, Inc., P.O. Box 3086, Osllkosh, Wi 54903-3086. FOREIGN AND APO Oshkosh. WI 54904 Union. IL 60180 ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPlANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail. 920/231-5002 815/923-4591 ADVERTISING - Antique/Classic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertiSing. We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken, ADVISORS EDITORIAL POUCY: Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs. Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the Sieve Krog Rager Gomoll authors. Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor. No renumeration is made. 1002 Heather Ln. 321-1/2 S, Broadway Material should be sent to: Ed~or , VINTAGE AIRPLANE, P.O, Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086. Phcne 920/426-4800. Hartford. WI 53027 Apt, 3 414/966-7627 Rochester. MN 55904 The words EAA, ULTRALIGHT, FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM, SPORT AVIATION and the logos of EAA, EAA INTER NATIONAL flJ7288-2810 CONVENTION, EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INTERNATIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB, WARBIRDS OF AMERtCA are ® registered trademarks. THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION and EAA ULTRAUGHT CONVENTION are trademarks David Bennett of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibrted, 403 Tanner Ct. Roseville. CA 95678 916-782-7025 A/C NEWS compiled by H.G. Frautschy ABOUT THAT BACK COVER ... Glen Winterscheidt's oil painting "Four hours Out" was picked as the Antique/Clas sic theme winner in this years Sport Aviation Art Competition. Here's what Glen had to say regarding the subject: "The Pan American Airwaysflights to the Orient in these magnificent Boe ing flying boats represented great adventure to a farm boy from Kansas back in the 1930's. This truly was The Golden Age ofAviation. " During my EAA PT-3 PROJECT MOVING FORWARD One of the winter projects under way In the EAA Air Adventure Museum shop Is the restoration of a service in the Navy, we flew PBM's Consolidated PT-3, the primary trainer that was In use by the U. S. military until it was replaced by the from San Diego to Japan, (with four Stearman In the late 1930s. Under the direction of EAA Founder and President Paul Poberezny and lead stops en route) reinforcing myappreci mechanic Gary Buettner (above, working on the new upper wing center section) , the project should be completed by the spring of '98, but there are a few items needed to complete the restoration. First, a ation for these transpacific pioneers. " Hamilton Standard 5404 Hub is needed, or, if possible, a complete Ham Standard prop, model Nos. Always interested in drawing 5006/ SB1.o or J-5404. airplanes and other forms of transporta Also needed are a pair of bucket style airplane seats, similar to the ones used In the Waco UPF-7. The exact model is not critical, but it Is desirable that both seats match. tion, Glen spent five years as a PBM If you can supply the above items for use In the restoration of the PT-3, which will be used for flight dis pilot. Then he returned to school to be plays at EAA's Pioneer Airport, please contact Gary Buettner via Gordy Selke's phone number at EAA's come an automobile designer (stylist). Cessna Restoration Center, 920/4264854. He spent 32 years in auto design with General Motors, retiring in 1989. He re REVISED MEMBERSHIP revise the charge we must add to Divi turned to San Diego after his retirement. SERVICES PAGE sion membership. Effective January 1, "Four Hours Out" has been sold to a EAA has always been recognized as a 1998 the cost for foreign postage will private collector, but you can contact leader in providing services to their mem increase one dollar, for a charge of$7. Glen regarding his paintings by writing bers. To make it easier for you, the EAA If you're already an EAA member, the him at 5738 Del Cerro Blvd., San Antique/Classic member, to access the cost for foreign membership in the An Diego, CA.