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EDITORIAL STAFF Publisher Tom Poberezny Vice-President, Marketing and Communications Dick Matt February 1994 Vol. 22, No.2 Editor-in-Chief Jack Cox Editor Henry G. Frautschy CONTENTS Managing Editor Golda Cox 1 Straight & Levell Art Director Espie "Butch" Joyce Mike Drucks Computer Graphic Specialists Sara Hansen 2 AC News/ Olivia L. Phillip Jennifer Larsen Compiled by H.G. Frautschy Advertising Mary Jones 4 Type Club Notes Associate Editor Norm Petersen 6 Vintage Iriterature/ Feature Writers Dennis P-arks George Hardie, Jr. Dennis Parks Staff Photographers 10 What Our Members are Restoring/ Jim Koepnick Mike Steineke Norm Petersen Carl Schuppel Donna Bushman Editorial Assistant 13 Dusty and Randy's Taylorcraft/ Isabelle Wiske H.G. Frautschy EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INC. OFFICERS 15 Floatplane and Luges · Bonny Flies President Vice·President Them Am/ H.G. Frautschy Espie 'Butch' Joyce Arthur Morgan 604 Highway St. 3744 North 51st Blvd. Modison, NC 27025 Milwaukee, WI 53216 16 Taylorcrafts For Two Cities/ 919/427-0216 414/442-3631 Norm Petersen Secretary Treasurer Steve Nesse E.E. 'Buck' Hilbert 2009 Highland Ave. P.O. Box 424 21 Spark Plugs to TBO/ Albert Lea, MN 56007 Union,IL60180 Bill Claxton 507/373-1674 815/923-4591 22 Mystery Plane/George Hardie DIRECTORS John Berendt Robert C. 'Bob' Brauer 7645 Echo Point Rd. 9345 S. Hoyne 24 Pass it to Buckl Connon Falls, MN 55009 Chicaw, IL 60620 507/263-2414 312/ 79-2105 E.E. "Buck" Hilbert Gene Chase John S. Copeland 2159 Corlton Rd. 28-3 Williannsbur8 Ct. Oshkosh, WI 54904 ShrewsbulY, MA 1545 27 Welcome New Members 414/231-5002 508/842-7867 Phil Coulson George Daubner 28 AlC Calendar 28415 Springbrook Dr. 2448 Lough Lane Lawton, MI 49065 Hartford, WI 53027 Page 24 616/624-6490 414/673-5885 29 Vintage Trader Chartes Harris Sian Gomoll 7215 East 46fh SI. 1042901h Lane, NE Tulsa, OK 74145 Minnea~lis, MN 55434 918/622-8400 61 /784-1172 FRONT COVER . Taylorcrafts are some of the most popular lightplanes ever Dale A. Gustafson Jeannie HIli produced. Don Claude's BC- 12D Taylorcraft looks as pretty as the Wisconsin 7724 Shady Hill Dr. P.O. Box 328 countryside its flying over in this EAA photo by Carl Schuppel. This good Indianapclis, IN 46278 Harvard, IL 60033 looking restoration has won the Classic d ivision - Custom Class A award at 317/293-4430 815/943-7205 the EAA Convention the past four years in a row! Shot with a Canon EOS- 1 Robert Uckteig Robert D. 'Bob' Lumley equipped w ith an 8O-200mm lens. 1/ 500 sec. at f5.6 on Kodak Kodachrome 1708 Boy Oaks r. 1265 South 124fh St. 64. Cessna 210 photo plane piloted by Bruce Moore. Albert Lea, MN 56007 8rookfield, WI 53005 507/373-2922 414/782-2633 BACK COVER . .Rollin Halfeld has been from coast to coast in his 1938 BC Gene Morris George York 65 Taylorcraft, the winner of the Antique Bronze Age Runner Up Trophy at 115C Steve Court, R.R. 2 181 Slobodo Av. Roanoke, TX 76262 Mansfield, OH 44906 EAA OSHKOSH '94. EAA photo by Carl Schuppel. Shot with a Canon EOS- 1 817/491-9110 419/529-4378 equipped with an 8O-200mm lens. 1/250 sec. at f5.6 on Kodak Kodachrome 64. Cessna 210 photo plane piloted by Bruce Moore. S.H. -Wes- Schmid 2359 Lefeber Avenue Copyright © 1994 by the EAA Antique/Classic Division Inc. All rights reserved. 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The flooding in the Midwest, your hangar roof may not be able to where many pilots lost their aircraft withstand the snow or ice load upon by Espie "Butch" Joyce and hangar, along with its contents, it, add a few support poles. It may is still fresh in our minds. I've not not be convenient, but it may save yet heard of any losses related to air your airplane. The attitude that the Weather certainly has been a hot craft in the California earthquake, hangar has been there for 25 years topic during the last few months. but certainly many of our friends and and will hold up for another 50 may Here in North Carolina, the climate pilots suffered losses that will take a not be the case. Better to be safe is usually good enough for weekend lot of work from which to recover. than to face a long and expensive flying during the winter months, but Our sympathy is extended to those rebuild! not this year. It's been cold, rainy who have suffered through this disas With the weather, it has been very and wet. On top of that, we've had a ter. quiet as far as aviation activity is great deal of freezing rain and ice All this talk about the weather concerned in our area. If it were not storms. Listening to other folks from reminds me of a point I'd like to for the EAA and AlC Chapter activi around the country, I've been hearing make. As you travel about, you see a ty, not much would be happening. similar comments. The sub-zero cold wide variety of hangars and T Our local Chapter 8 has been busy has certainly been a burden for those hangars that have been constructed getting ready for the spring and who live further north. The deep cold over the years. Pilots, being a summer flying season, and snap has even begun to affect struc resourceful group, have often tried to Antique/Classic Chapter 3 has been tures. I understand that during the make a hangar out of anything they planning their spring fly-in. I sup skiplane fly-in at Pioneer Airport last could get their hands on, which has pose it is not to early to start looking month, when they tried to open a led to some interesting construction forward to the EAA Sun 'n Fun Fly hangar door, it would barely budge. methods. Wooden structures covered In coming up April 9 through the Apparently, the concrete apron had in metal, pipe structures covered in 16th. This is always a "shot in the heaved up slightly and jammed the tin. You name it, it's probably been arm" for those of us who have had to door. I've also had a similar problem used to build a hangar. In many suffer through the tough winter. I with my hangar here in Shiloh. I cases, these sheds have given air always look forward to Sun 'n Fun have not been able to open my door to ports their unique character. seeing all my friends and looking at move my aircraft so I have been Unfortunately, as many of these the newly restored airplanes that inside working on the airplanes. A hangars age, they may not be able to have just been finished during the 250,000 BTU overhead propane safely store your aeronautical pride winter months provides a pleasant heater in my hangar does a very good and joy. break during the early spring. job of keeping it warm and toasty. A gentleman from Texas was Ifyou have not yet had a chance to Even with the heat, I've still had to unfortunate enough to have his attend Sun 'n Fun, you may want to use only the back door of the hangar hangar collapse on his Bonanza dur try it this year, or start making plans with the concrete heaved up in front, ing bad weather, one of many occur for the future.