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SKYWAYS, the JOURNAL of the AIRPLANE 1920-1940 Hard Time Gaining Traction on the Road to Success FROM THE EDITOR Y S K Y W A Y S This issue features some of the more unusual and unique ideas that came about in aviation during the Golden THE JOURNAL OF THE AIRPLANE 1920-1940 Age. Some ideas and efforts were ISSN xxxx-xxxx brilliant; others…maybe not so much. Published by WORLD WAR I AEROPLANES, INC., a tax-exempt service It is interesting to revisit some of organization founded in 1961, devoted to: these ideas and designs with fresh x Those Magnificent Flying Machines of 1900-1940 eyes now that 80 years or so have x Their enthusiasts, including: passed since they were first Builders Modelers Historians presented. New technology applied Restorers Museums Collectors to old ideas that were not possible back then due to manufacturing We publish two journals; membership includes a year of one or both: processes, material requirements, members contribute at least the indicated minimum, with anything over and the limits of the technology of the that as tax-deductible contribution. Since we are a service time could be viewed with a new organization, our expenses go beyond publication and mailing costs, perspective in today’s day and age. so the more, the better! Gifts of books or other saleable materials are Some of the ideas and experiments also tax deductible. Visit our website at www.ww1aeroinc.org for were perfectly acceptable as they additional information. were, but sometimes an unusual design that does not conform what WW1 AERO, THE JOURNAL OF THE EARLY AEROPLANE society accepts as the norm has a SKYWAYS, THE JOURNAL OF THE AIRPLANE 1920-1940 hard time gaining traction on the road to success. Publisher: World War I Aeroplanes, Inc., PO Box 730, Red Hook, NY 12571 We have also had quite a bit of Editor/Layout: Issue #102 - Tom Polapink material on Travel Air Mystery Ships Board: T. Sean Tavares (Chair), Gregory Alegi, Jim Bruton, Charlie Day, Jim Hare, come to our attention recently and Michael Maniatis, Tom Polapink, Peter Truesdell feature it all in this issue. Special Board Members Emeritus (Deceased) thanks to Charles Peter Colomello Hal Andrews, Peter Grosz, August Blume who provided us with his never- before-published images of the type. #102 April, 2013 © 2013, World War I Aeroplanes, Inc. In future issue we plan to feature coverage Autogiros, Wacos, New Table of Contents Standard, early Taylor aircraft and early Piper Cubs. If you have Extraordinary Aircraft of the Golden Age – Compilation of articles of unique and innovative designs.…2 information, an article, photos or news Lanier Vacuplane - Popular Aviation February, 1932 ………………………………………….………..18 that you’d like to share with us, we Lanier Vacuplane – Aero Digest February, 1935 …………………………………………………...……19 would appreciate it! A Few More All-Wing Planes, Lewis Owen, Popular Aviation, March 1937 …………...…………………20 Guerchais Tailless Lightplane - Fletcher Pratt, Popular Aviation September 1932 ……………...…..25 The “Uniplane,” an All-Wing Type, Richard B. Johnson, Popular Aviation December 1936 …………27 The Arup Flying-Wing, J.B. Roberts, Popular Aviation, August 1933 …………………………………..29 Novel All Wing Airplane - Raoul J. Hoffman, Popular Aviation March 1935 ……………………...…..32 A Low Aspect Ratio Plane, Raoul Hoffman, Popular Aviation, September 1935 ………….………….34 Announcing the New Arup, Popular Aviation, August, 1935 …………………………………………….35 Claudio Luchina’s 1:72 Models ……………………………………………………………………..………36 A Radically Different Airplane, Ben Brown Tailless ………………………………………………………39 C.L. Brown’s Duplex Prop, Popular Aviation, September 1935 ………………………………….……..40 A Scissors Type Convertible, E.C. Stroop, Popular Aviation, August 1936 …………………………..43 Bugatti Model 100P Reproduction, Photos courtesy of Scotty Wilson ………………………………..45 Travel Air R Mystery Ship – Charles C. Barrenrugge, Popular Aviation August, 1932 ………………47 Golden Age Simulations Travel Air “Mystery Ship” for FSX, Paul Corish …………………………….49 Travel Air Mystery Ship, NR1313, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry …………………….… 57 Earlier this month I joined WWI Pancho Barnes’ Travel Air Mystery Ship, Nick Spark .……………………..…………………………… 61 Aeroplanes, Inc. Board President, Sean Reviews; Pancho Barnes ………………………………………………………………………………......64 Tavares (right) and fellow aviation From the Members, Charles Peter Colomello’s photos of Travel Air Mystery Ship 614K ……………65 enthusiast and pilot Sheldon Teider at Models - Lou Buffardi ……………………………………………………………………..…………….…..68 Armstrong Siddeley Lynx Radial Engine, Stephen Wessel ……………………………………..………70 the National Air & Space Museum in From the Board – Year End Report ……………………………………………………………………….74 Washington, D.C. We had the pleasure W&D ………………………………………………………………………………….……………………….75 of spending an hour or so with NASM’s Advertisements ……………………………………………………………………………………………...76 Associate Director for Collections and How to get PDF and Print Issues of WWI AERO and SKYWAYS …………………………………….81 Curatorial Affairs, Dr. Peter L. Jakab (center). Sean, Peter and I originally met at the WWI R/C Model Jamboree at The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome back in the 1970s/1980s. Photo: Sheldon Tieder Cover: Travel Air Mystery Ship, NR1313 on exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Photo: Ted Let us know your thoughts…write us Nigrelli. Inside Front Cover: The original Bugatti 100 at the EAA Museum in Wisconsin. Rear Cover: Advertisement for the Wing Dragonfly as it appeared in the September 1930 issue of Aero Digest. at [email protected] World War I Aeroplanes, Inc, P.O. Box 730, Red Hook, NY 12571, USA As always, thank you for reading! Web - www.ww1aeroinc.org - email - [email protected] - Phone – (845) 835-8121 Tom Polapink APRIL 2013 1 Pancho Barnes' Travel Air “Mystery Ship” Nick Spark www.legendofpanchobarnes.com Nick Spark is the producer and writer of The Legend of Trophy. Davis was the first civilian pilot to win the Pancho Barnes, an Emmy-award winning documentary coveted award, besting several Air Corps entries in film that traces the career of legendary aviatrix Florence handy fashion. Pancho probably witnessed that race, as "Pancho" Barnes. This entry from his production journal she herself was in Cleveland that day. recounts the story of Barnes' iconic airplane - Travel Air Mystery Ship #R613K. Read more about the film and see After crashing in the Powder Puff Derby, Pancho was a trailer at: www.LegendofPanchoBarnes.com eager to prove herself and the meteor-like Mystery Ship proved irresistible. She probably saw the one that she Pancho Barnes' Travel Air "Mystery Ship" symbolized purchased, tail #R613K, on display at Cleveland. her bold, fast, wild life of adventure. It's a key part of her story and our documentary, and true to form an actual "mystery." The entire time we were making the film, I wondered where Pancho's plane had ended up. The last confirmed sighting of it was decades ago, when it was sold to an unnamed buyer. Combing through magazine articles and internet postings, and asking everyone we came into contact with, yielded few answers. A couple people seemed to know where it was, but said they "couldn't say" when pressed. Vows of secrecy, non- disclosure agreements, or just people having fun with us? One thing seemed clear: whoever owned it, really wanted to keep the plane's whereabouts a mystery. Known as the "Chevrolair" Mystery Ship because it was equipped with a six-cylinder inline engine, it debuted there alongside its more powerful twin and eventually (at the time Pancho bought it) was reconfigured with a Our Mystery Ship's MIA status was certainly true to radial. This was the plane that Pancho flew to fame, form. The plane itself was one of only five ever built and coasting from Oakland to Los Angeles in record time, got its nickname because head designer Walter Beech and besting Amelia Earhart's air speed record at an and his underlings Herb Rawdon and Walter Burnham average speed of 185 mph in 1930. That proved to be the kept the "Model R"'s design a secret right up until the most triumphant moment of Barnes' aviation career. Just moment it was unveiled at the National Air Races in a few years later she fell on hard times and couldn't 1929. The plane, with its clean lines and hefty radial afford hangar rent for the plane, much less avgas. The engine, caught the crowd's attention. Soon it stunned the zippy aircraft ended up in the hands of fellow stunt pilot field, as pilot Doug Davis flew #R614K at an Paul Mantz. In Mantz' hands #R613K became a astonishing 194.9 miles per hour to win the Thompson Hollywood star, appearing in a number of aviation films APRIL 2013 61 and serials including "Dive Bomber" and "Tailspin protracted discussions, bought the plane. It then did a Tommy". The plane's exotic fuselage allowed it to vanishing act worth of Houdini. impersonate experimental fighter aircraft, a Schneider racer, and others before it fell into disuse and disrepair — probably during WWII when all West Coast-based civilian planes were grounded. Paul Mantz, along with fellow stunt flier Frank Tallman, proved to be an avid collector of planes. The two eventually opened the "Movieland of the Air" museum in Santa Ana, and the derelict Mystery Ship was on display there. After Mantz was killed during the shooting of The Flight of the Phoenix, a large part of the collection was sold at auction including #R613K. The aircraft was a prize part of the 1968 auction and expected to bring a premium price, but that's not what happened. Given her unmistakable looks and larger- than-life presence, it was hard for auction attendees not to notice Pancho, and when people realized that she At a certain point during pre-production of the film, the hoped to win her plane back, they refused to bid against plane's fate seemed extremely important to Amanda and her. In the end Pancho, her son Billy and his wife I. At that time we hadn't been able to locate any film Shouling won the plane at a price that must have left footage of Pancho or the Mystery Ship, and so we were auctioneers Parke-Bernet feeling like they'd been thinking that we'd have to shoot some re-enactments to robbed.
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