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JULY/AUGUST 2017 •SUN ’n FUN Photos THE RETURN OF •Newells’ Jewel VERTIGO Vintage Airplane STAFF EAA Publisher/Chairman of the Board . Jack J. Pelton Editor ............... Jim Busha Ford Proudly Presents . [email protected] Barenaked Ladies in Concert: Opening-night concert on Message From the President Monday, next to the Ford Hangar on Boeing Plaza VAA Executive Administrator . Hannah Hupfer SUSAN DUSENBURY 920-426-6110 .......... [email protected] Fly-In Theater: Nightly at Camp Scholler, epic VAA PRESIDENT blockbuster movies and classic aviation-themed Art Director ............ Olivia Phillip Trabbold films: • Sun: Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob ADVERTISING: Hoover Project & Mission Control Vice President of Business Development • Mon: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Dave Chaimson ......... [email protected] • Tue: Sully • Wed: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Advertising Manager • Thu: Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation AirVenture 2017 Sue Anderson .......... [email protected] • Fri: Hidden Figures • Sat: Strategic Air Command VAA, PO Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903 There will be fabulous presenters and Website: www.vintageaircraft.org free popcorn! It’s that time of year again when so many of us are making our Email: [email protected] Free Ice Cream: Watch for the Ford final plans for EAA AirVenture, and that is particularly true for Transit Ice Cream Van those of us who are diligently working as volunteers on the Vintage Uniquely Ford grounds at Oshkosh. I think you will be pleasantly surprised by the VISIT Ford F-22 Raptor F-150: See this one- improvements that we have made in our “Vintage village.” Thanks to www.vintageaircraft.org of-a-kind build, specially designed in very generous donations from both the Biplane Association and VAA for the latest in information and news tribute to the remarkable F-22 stealth Chapter 10 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, we were able to restore the Red Barn and for the electronic newsletter: tactical fighter aircraft. To be auctioned Vintage AirMail at the Gathering of Eagles to benefit and build a new judges headquarters. (I might thankfully add that EAA’s youth education programs these organizations have a great deal of insight into the needs and Ford Front 40: Help us celebrate 40 years operation of the Vintage Aircraft Association and actually specified of truck sales leadership with the new 2018 how their donations were to be used.) The restoration of the Red VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION F-150, F-150 Raptor and Super Duty pickups Barn was both structural and cosmetic while adding square footage Current EAA members may join the Vintage 2018 Vehicles: Make sure to preview the new and a new west (mostly!) entrance to our flagship building. The new Aircraft Association and receive VINTAGE AIR- 2018 model vehicles, including the new Navigator, PLANE magazine for an additional $45/year. Expedition, Mustang, F-150 and the all-new addition is to be used as a display area that will include a brief his- EcoSport compact SUV tory of our Red Barn, some giant scale vintage models (on loan from EAA Membership, VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine and one-year membership in the Model T Experience: Take a break and tour the grounds Vintage volunteer Tim Fox), and a display featuring our very own EAA Vintage Aircraft Association are available in a Model T ride, only at the Ford Hangar Vintage volunteers. Other displays will feature the Vintage Book- for $55 per year (SPORT AVIATION magazine not Family Fun Throughout the Week: Experience “The Boost” – store, Aeromart, and more. Fear not! We will still be serving popcorn the first time a ferris wheel has been near the flight line, climb the included). (Add $7 for International Postage.) Raptor Rock Wall and soar on the Tough Tumblers Bungee Trampolines. and lemonade in the Red Barn. As a footnote, we will be adding the Make a custom button or a 3D map of your face! Join us for many fun Vintage Hall of Fame inductees to the display area in 2018. FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS activities for the entire family Our talented maintenance team is busy installing a ceiling and Please submit your remittance with a Ford Autograph Headquarters: Autographs from celebrities, air show performers new lighting in the Vintage Bookstore so you’ll stay cool and comfy check or draft drawn on a United States and living legends while perusing through all of those really cool books. The idea of the bank payable in United States dollars. Add Merchandise Tent: Buy Ford GT and Raptor items and other exciting Ford branded merchandise Vintage Bookstore was conceived a few years ago with the premise required Foreign Postage amount for each Free Collectibles: Special Limited Edition “F-22 Raptor” hats provided daily that there are a large number of out of print and sought after avia- membership. Your Exclusive EAA Automotive Partner tion books that are looking for a new home. To keep those books Membership Service from being thrown away or given to an organization that does not PO Box 3086 We are pleased to offer EAA members special pricing on Ford and Lincoln vehicles through Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086 Ford’s Partner Recognition Program and we are excited to provide EAA members an additional $750 understand their importance to the aviation community, we started Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM—6:00 PM CST toward their vehicle purchase or lease. Stop by the Ford display for details. a program where we would accept donated books (remember, we are Join/Renew 800-564-6322 classified as a nonprofit organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3), and [email protected] as such donations are tax-deductible) and sell them at a reasonable EAA AirVenture Oshkosh price to aviation people who really appreciate them. This year we re- www.eaa.org/airventure ceived a very large and generous donation of someone’s private 888-322-4636 continued on page 13 www.vintageaircraft.org 1 2017-July_Event_EAA_Divis_Ad-Final-Revised.indd 1 5/23/17 12:32 PM Vol. 45, No. 4 COLUMNS 1 Message From the President CONTENTS JULY/AUGUST 2017 AirVenture 2017 Susan Dusenbury 6 46 10 VAA News James S. ‘Jim’ Moss Bill Brennand 16 How to? 2017 Hall of Fame inductee Oshkosh aviator Using a tap tester tool Jim Cunningham Robert G. Lock 20 18 Good Old Days The Return of Vertigo 52 59 The Vintage Mechanic The Newells’ Jewel Teaching a nation how to fly, Part 4 COVERS Alvin Musser’s historic Clipped Cub FRONT COVER: Clipped Cub Vertigo Representing Taylorcraft’s four-place foray Robert G. Lock Budd Davisson over EAA Oshkosh. Photo by Tyson Sparky Barnes Sargent 63 VAA New Members Rininger. 28 64 Vintage Trader SUN ’n FUN 2017 Photos BACK COVER: Bill Brennand poses in front of “Buster” which he piloted to several first place finishes. Buster now proudly hangs in the Smithso- nian Air and Space museum. ANY COMMENTS? For missing or replacement magazines, or any other Send your thoughts to the membership-related questions, ERIN BRUEGEN Vintage Editor at: jbusha@ please call EAA Member Services eaa.org at 800-JOIN-EAA (564-6322). 2 JULY/AUGUST 2017 www.vintageaircraft.org 3 TM Donor Special Access to A “6-pack” Two Passes Breakfast at Tri-Motor OR Two Tickets Close Special Two Appreciation FORB Air-Conditioned of Cold to VAA Tall Pines Helicopter to VAA Picnic Auto Air Show Weekly CONTRIBUTION Certificate Badge Volunteer Bottled Volunteer Café Ride Parking Seating Wristbands Friends of the LEVELS ↓ Center Water! Party Certificate DIAMOND PLUS 2 people, 2 tickets Full week 2 people, 2 people, X X X X X X $1,500 & higher full week full week full week DIAMOND 2 people, 2 tickets Full week 2 people, RED BARN X X X X X X $1,000 - $1,499 full week 1 day PLATINUM 2 people, 1 ticket 2 days Friends of the Red Barn program is our only annual fundraiser to support the VAA members, X X X X X X volunteers, and Vintage hospitality at Oshkosh. The VAA Red Barn is the centerpiece, the $750 - $999 full week GOLD 1 person, 1 ticket central gathering place for virtually all Vintage members during EAA Oshkosh each year. The X X X X X Red Barn is where we meet our friends, get our questions answered, sit on the front porch to $500 - $749 full week SILVER rest a bit, drink lemonade, and thoroughly enjoy our aviation friends and the spectacular events X X X X X of the day. We never meet a stranger at the Red Barn; everyone is on cloud nine just to be $250 - $499 enjoying being in a place we so thoroughly enjoy and appreciate. But the Red Barn as we know BRONZE PLUS X X X X it today did not just happen. In 2000-2001, Vintage found itself attempting to provide a proper, $150 - $249 acceptable facility to meet, greet, and accommodate its members. The Red Barn was old. We had BRONZE X X X used it since 1973 and it was used long before that as a real barn. It was tired and not in keeping $100 - $149 with EAA and Vintage standards in terms of condition and acceptability. Vintage had no money LOYAL to improve it; our dues were pitifully small and completely insufficient to assist in any way. We SUPPORTER X had to remedy an unacceptable situation . and we did. $99 and under We created the Friends of the Red Barn program in 2001. We kicked off our first campaign in early 2002. Our goal was to interest a small number of dedicated Vintage members to financially support the physical improvement of the Red Barn and, far more important, upgrade and support it to the point where it became an inviting, pleasant place to meet, greet, relax, and simply enjoy the magic and magnificence that is Oshkosh each summer.