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yenyen THE RESTORERS CORNER

Oshkosh is just around the corner Whats tha t you say No it isn t its s till several months away Well for you severa l months away may not be just around the corner but for your Division Officers Direc tors and Convention Chairmen Oshkosh is very definitely just around the corner They have been working and planning for Oshkosh 76 ever since Oshkosh 75 Now their effor ts are developing to th e point of fever pitch There is s till much tha t they need to co mple te the preparations so tha t you will enjoy a smooth efficiently opera ted convention Those needs fall into two ca tegories equipment and manpower

In th e eq uipment ca tegory your Forums Chairmen need severa l items of project ion equipment including a 40 x 40 Dalite beaded projection screen a dual 8 millimeter movie pro jector a 16 millimeter sound movie projector and a 35 millimeter slide projector If any of you have any of this equipment in good used working condition it is surplus to your needs and you would be willing to donate it to the Division for use in the forums tent during the co nvention your officers and forum chairmen would be most gra teful The projection equipment does not have to be the n ewes t or most modern It only need be -good quality s tandard equipment in good working condition For example th e movie projectors should be standard reel type and the slide projector should be one which ca n be fed slides individually rather th an the more modern tray or carousel models This letter is because most forum speakers have only a few slides to project along w ith their talks and they usually just bring th e slides loose in a box

Also in the equipm ent ca tegory your parking chairmen are in need of a dozen pairs of ping pong paddles to be used for parking airp lanes Your chairmen wi ll take care of painting th e paddles interna tional orange if some members will donate them How about looking in the cellar or th e a ttic and seeing if you ca n still find those old paddles which had the playshying surface worn off of them They are no longer any good for ping-pong but they would be idea l for parking airplanes

Your parking chairmen also need a dozen light weight hard hats to be worn by the parking committee mini-bike patrol And speaking of minishybikes th ey shall need quite a few mini -bikes motor scooters and tra il

by J R NIELANDER JR

bikes since they are going to have to handle parking in the entire south 40 this year If you have any that you would be willing to donate or even lend to the parking committee for the duration of the convention please let them hear from you

If Y04 can supply any of this needed equipment please write to your Convention Chairman in care of AntiqueClassic Division at EAA Headshyquarters as soon as possible so tha t they will know what they can count on to work with Items such as paddles and hard ha ts could be easily boxed and mailed The projection equipment could probably be picked up by some division member and delivered to Headquarters if you are unable to deliver it yourself The same goes for mini-bikes or scooters etc

Next month we ll talk about the oth er big need at the Convention -MANPOWER

An Antique Classic Division Board of Dishyrectors meeting will be held at EAA Headquarters in Hales Corners Wisconsin at 930 AM on Saturday April 24 1976 All divisional members are invited to atshytend

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OFFICIAL MAGAZINE

ANTIQUE CLASSIC DIVISION

of THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

MARCH 1976 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3

The Res torers Corner 1 Roscoe Turner amp 2470 3 Remember Milo Burcham 8 Vin tage Album 9 A Ra nch Crit ter 11 From the Album of Dean Crites 14 Whis tling In Th e Rigging 17

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Mr Gado I don t even know how to flyFokker 0middot7 in action at Old Rhinebeck NY EL T so why should I have one

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NESR Roscoe Turner amp 247D

Share a Great Moment By Edward D Williams

713 Eastman Drive Mt Prospect Illinois 60056

THE BOEING 2470 WHICH WAS USED FIRST AS A LONG DISTANCE RACING PLANE BY COL ROSCOE TURNER AND THEN FLEW FOR UNITED AIRLINES HAS JOINED FIVE OTHER

EARLY AIRLINERS HANGING FROM 52 FOOT HIGH TRESTLES AT THE CEILING OF THE NEW NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION PERSONS A YEAR ARE EXPECTED TO VISIT THE SMITHshySONIAN INSTITUTIONS NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM AFTER IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC ON JUL Y 4 1976 AND THEY WILL BE TREATED TO A LOOK AT SOME BEAUTIFULshyL Y PRESERVED MILITARY GENERAL AVIATION AND AIRLINE AIRCRAFT

FEW OF THE VISITORS HOWEVER WILL BE AWARE OF THE WORK IT TOOK TO INSTALL THE AIRCRAFT IN THE NEW $40 MILLION MUSEUM AND - IN THE CASE OF THE SIX ANTIQUE AIRLINERS HANGING FROM THE CEILING OF THE HALL OF AIR TRANSPORTAshyTION - HOW THE BIG PLANES WERE BROUGHT TO THE MUSEUM IN THE FIRST PLACE

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For example the Boeing 247D which has the place of honor in the Hall was towed 15 miles tail first and minus wings from Clinton Md to the Museum down Maryland highways and District of Columbia streets The move was made at night in a pouring rain

Most of the planes came into the mushyseum from the Smithsonians Silver Hill Md storage facility but the 247D came the longer distance from Clinton beshycause it was restored at Hyde Field there (See The Vintage Airplane April 1975)

The moving procedure is old hat to the EAAs Air Education Museum which has trucked many planes over the years from local Milwaukee-area airports to

Boeing 2470 in the Silver Hill Md storage facility before restoration beshygan last April

Franklin Wis But for the Smithsonian it was a new experience fraught with danger for the the valuable aircraft

The DC-3 FC-2 and Trimotor were already in the Museum when the 247D was scheduled to be moved Smithshysonian officials were wary because two shots had been fired at the DC-3 enroute from Silver Hill and a speeder who had

Stephen J Chris (left) and the author before the restoration work began

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises (in hard hat standing between wings in hangar) supervises the movement of the wings from the hangar to the truck

(Photo by Buck Hilbert)

The exhibit includes an American Ford Trimotor Eastern Air Lines Dougshylas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northshyrop Alpha Eastern Air Lines Pitcairn Mailwing Pan American Fairchild FC-2 and the United 247D the worlds first modern airliners

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zipped around the Trimotor on the highway came close to wiping it out

And when the 2470 was first moved from Silver Hill Md to Clinton for the restoration work on March 19 1975 a motorist was given a ticket for careless driving around the slow-moving caravan

On the recent trip from Clinton to the museum however all went according to plan It seemed like an incident might occur when a sedan with four people inside pulled up alongside the caravan but they just took a flash picture of the strange collection of vehicles and continued on their way Many motorists on the road however did gawk at the odd mixture of police cars trucks and an airplane

The Smithsonians Boeing 2470 had a varied backshyground It was rolled out of the factory in Seattle as a United airliner in September 1934 but was leased the next month to Col Roscoe Turner Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nichols who flew it to third place in the

Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries (left) and the author look over plans for restoration of the 2470 last April at Hyde Field Clinton Md before the work got under way

MacRobertson International Air Derby It was returned to United after the race and put into regular airline service United sold the plane in 1937 to a utility comshypany which sold it two years later to the Civil Aeroshynautics Administration The CAA in turn used it for research projects and donated it to the Smithsonian on July 171953

A few months ago with a $27000 grant from United Airlines the Smithsonian contracted with CNC Inshydustries Inc at Hyde Field Clinton to restore it to its original condition and Williams Enterprises Inc of Laurel Md transported the disassembled 2470 from Silver Hill to Hyde Field for restoration work

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises and a former Canadian air force pilot surshyveyed the route by car previous to the move and he anticipated no problems although there was a lot of construction work in progress on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia

I thought about using a helicopter to transport the plane to the museum Showers said but we couldnt get District approval because the flight path would have been over congested areas

Showers was sure there would be enough clearance on the roads although the fuselage with the wing roots and engines attached measured 20 feet in width and

the three-bladed props added a couple more feet of width Height was no problem since the tail was not attached but was already in the museum along with the control surfaces and engine cowlings

Showers had supervised the move of the 2470 from Silver Hill to Clinton on March 19 and was in charge again for the move to the new museum the night of October 8 and 9 The plane was prepared for the trip during the day on October 8 Showers crew of seven men moved the wings from CNes hangar and loaded them on the flatbed truck first laying them on sawshyhorses and then lifting them up to the truck Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries estimated that the hollow wings weighed about 1000 pounds each

Before the wings were put about the trucks Chris noticed that some sand had accumulated in the wing roots It was cleaned out with a vaccum cleaner before the work was allowed to continue

The tailwheel of the fuselage then was mounted on a specially-made coupling on a semi-trailer tractor so that the fuselage could be towed backwards on its own landing gear

Workman making a final walk around inspection before beginning to roll down the long road to the museum

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Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

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ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

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Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

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1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

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que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

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ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

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MARCH 1976 VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3

The Res torers Corner 1 Roscoe Turner amp 2470 3 Remember Milo Burcham 8 Vin tage Album 9 A Ra nch Crit ter 11 From the Album of Dean Crites 14 Whis tling In Th e Rigging 17

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Mr Gado I don t even know how to flyFokker 0middot7 in action at Old Rhinebeck NY EL T so why should I have one

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NESR Roscoe Turner amp 247D

Share a Great Moment By Edward D Williams

713 Eastman Drive Mt Prospect Illinois 60056

THE BOEING 2470 WHICH WAS USED FIRST AS A LONG DISTANCE RACING PLANE BY COL ROSCOE TURNER AND THEN FLEW FOR UNITED AIRLINES HAS JOINED FIVE OTHER

EARLY AIRLINERS HANGING FROM 52 FOOT HIGH TRESTLES AT THE CEILING OF THE NEW NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION PERSONS A YEAR ARE EXPECTED TO VISIT THE SMITHshySONIAN INSTITUTIONS NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM AFTER IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC ON JUL Y 4 1976 AND THEY WILL BE TREATED TO A LOOK AT SOME BEAUTIFULshyL Y PRESERVED MILITARY GENERAL AVIATION AND AIRLINE AIRCRAFT

FEW OF THE VISITORS HOWEVER WILL BE AWARE OF THE WORK IT TOOK TO INSTALL THE AIRCRAFT IN THE NEW $40 MILLION MUSEUM AND - IN THE CASE OF THE SIX ANTIQUE AIRLINERS HANGING FROM THE CEILING OF THE HALL OF AIR TRANSPORTAshyTION - HOW THE BIG PLANES WERE BROUGHT TO THE MUSEUM IN THE FIRST PLACE

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For example the Boeing 247D which has the place of honor in the Hall was towed 15 miles tail first and minus wings from Clinton Md to the Museum down Maryland highways and District of Columbia streets The move was made at night in a pouring rain

Most of the planes came into the mushyseum from the Smithsonians Silver Hill Md storage facility but the 247D came the longer distance from Clinton beshycause it was restored at Hyde Field there (See The Vintage Airplane April 1975)

The moving procedure is old hat to the EAAs Air Education Museum which has trucked many planes over the years from local Milwaukee-area airports to

Boeing 2470 in the Silver Hill Md storage facility before restoration beshygan last April

Franklin Wis But for the Smithsonian it was a new experience fraught with danger for the the valuable aircraft

The DC-3 FC-2 and Trimotor were already in the Museum when the 247D was scheduled to be moved Smithshysonian officials were wary because two shots had been fired at the DC-3 enroute from Silver Hill and a speeder who had

Stephen J Chris (left) and the author before the restoration work began

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises (in hard hat standing between wings in hangar) supervises the movement of the wings from the hangar to the truck

(Photo by Buck Hilbert)

The exhibit includes an American Ford Trimotor Eastern Air Lines Dougshylas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northshyrop Alpha Eastern Air Lines Pitcairn Mailwing Pan American Fairchild FC-2 and the United 247D the worlds first modern airliners

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zipped around the Trimotor on the highway came close to wiping it out

And when the 2470 was first moved from Silver Hill Md to Clinton for the restoration work on March 19 1975 a motorist was given a ticket for careless driving around the slow-moving caravan

On the recent trip from Clinton to the museum however all went according to plan It seemed like an incident might occur when a sedan with four people inside pulled up alongside the caravan but they just took a flash picture of the strange collection of vehicles and continued on their way Many motorists on the road however did gawk at the odd mixture of police cars trucks and an airplane

The Smithsonians Boeing 2470 had a varied backshyground It was rolled out of the factory in Seattle as a United airliner in September 1934 but was leased the next month to Col Roscoe Turner Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nichols who flew it to third place in the

Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries (left) and the author look over plans for restoration of the 2470 last April at Hyde Field Clinton Md before the work got under way

MacRobertson International Air Derby It was returned to United after the race and put into regular airline service United sold the plane in 1937 to a utility comshypany which sold it two years later to the Civil Aeroshynautics Administration The CAA in turn used it for research projects and donated it to the Smithsonian on July 171953

A few months ago with a $27000 grant from United Airlines the Smithsonian contracted with CNC Inshydustries Inc at Hyde Field Clinton to restore it to its original condition and Williams Enterprises Inc of Laurel Md transported the disassembled 2470 from Silver Hill to Hyde Field for restoration work

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises and a former Canadian air force pilot surshyveyed the route by car previous to the move and he anticipated no problems although there was a lot of construction work in progress on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia

I thought about using a helicopter to transport the plane to the museum Showers said but we couldnt get District approval because the flight path would have been over congested areas

Showers was sure there would be enough clearance on the roads although the fuselage with the wing roots and engines attached measured 20 feet in width and

the three-bladed props added a couple more feet of width Height was no problem since the tail was not attached but was already in the museum along with the control surfaces and engine cowlings

Showers had supervised the move of the 2470 from Silver Hill to Clinton on March 19 and was in charge again for the move to the new museum the night of October 8 and 9 The plane was prepared for the trip during the day on October 8 Showers crew of seven men moved the wings from CNes hangar and loaded them on the flatbed truck first laying them on sawshyhorses and then lifting them up to the truck Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries estimated that the hollow wings weighed about 1000 pounds each

Before the wings were put about the trucks Chris noticed that some sand had accumulated in the wing roots It was cleaned out with a vaccum cleaner before the work was allowed to continue

The tailwheel of the fuselage then was mounted on a specially-made coupling on a semi-trailer tractor so that the fuselage could be towed backwards on its own landing gear

Workman making a final walk around inspection before beginning to roll down the long road to the museum

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Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

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ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

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1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

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que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

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ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

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Share a Great Moment By Edward D Williams

713 Eastman Drive Mt Prospect Illinois 60056

THE BOEING 2470 WHICH WAS USED FIRST AS A LONG DISTANCE RACING PLANE BY COL ROSCOE TURNER AND THEN FLEW FOR UNITED AIRLINES HAS JOINED FIVE OTHER

EARLY AIRLINERS HANGING FROM 52 FOOT HIGH TRESTLES AT THE CEILING OF THE NEW NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION PERSONS A YEAR ARE EXPECTED TO VISIT THE SMITHshySONIAN INSTITUTIONS NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM AFTER IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC ON JUL Y 4 1976 AND THEY WILL BE TREATED TO A LOOK AT SOME BEAUTIFULshyL Y PRESERVED MILITARY GENERAL AVIATION AND AIRLINE AIRCRAFT

FEW OF THE VISITORS HOWEVER WILL BE AWARE OF THE WORK IT TOOK TO INSTALL THE AIRCRAFT IN THE NEW $40 MILLION MUSEUM AND - IN THE CASE OF THE SIX ANTIQUE AIRLINERS HANGING FROM THE CEILING OF THE HALL OF AIR TRANSPORTAshyTION - HOW THE BIG PLANES WERE BROUGHT TO THE MUSEUM IN THE FIRST PLACE

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For example the Boeing 247D which has the place of honor in the Hall was towed 15 miles tail first and minus wings from Clinton Md to the Museum down Maryland highways and District of Columbia streets The move was made at night in a pouring rain

Most of the planes came into the mushyseum from the Smithsonians Silver Hill Md storage facility but the 247D came the longer distance from Clinton beshycause it was restored at Hyde Field there (See The Vintage Airplane April 1975)

The moving procedure is old hat to the EAAs Air Education Museum which has trucked many planes over the years from local Milwaukee-area airports to

Boeing 2470 in the Silver Hill Md storage facility before restoration beshygan last April

Franklin Wis But for the Smithsonian it was a new experience fraught with danger for the the valuable aircraft

The DC-3 FC-2 and Trimotor were already in the Museum when the 247D was scheduled to be moved Smithshysonian officials were wary because two shots had been fired at the DC-3 enroute from Silver Hill and a speeder who had

Stephen J Chris (left) and the author before the restoration work began

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises (in hard hat standing between wings in hangar) supervises the movement of the wings from the hangar to the truck

(Photo by Buck Hilbert)

The exhibit includes an American Ford Trimotor Eastern Air Lines Dougshylas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northshyrop Alpha Eastern Air Lines Pitcairn Mailwing Pan American Fairchild FC-2 and the United 247D the worlds first modern airliners

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zipped around the Trimotor on the highway came close to wiping it out

And when the 2470 was first moved from Silver Hill Md to Clinton for the restoration work on March 19 1975 a motorist was given a ticket for careless driving around the slow-moving caravan

On the recent trip from Clinton to the museum however all went according to plan It seemed like an incident might occur when a sedan with four people inside pulled up alongside the caravan but they just took a flash picture of the strange collection of vehicles and continued on their way Many motorists on the road however did gawk at the odd mixture of police cars trucks and an airplane

The Smithsonians Boeing 2470 had a varied backshyground It was rolled out of the factory in Seattle as a United airliner in September 1934 but was leased the next month to Col Roscoe Turner Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nichols who flew it to third place in the

Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries (left) and the author look over plans for restoration of the 2470 last April at Hyde Field Clinton Md before the work got under way

MacRobertson International Air Derby It was returned to United after the race and put into regular airline service United sold the plane in 1937 to a utility comshypany which sold it two years later to the Civil Aeroshynautics Administration The CAA in turn used it for research projects and donated it to the Smithsonian on July 171953

A few months ago with a $27000 grant from United Airlines the Smithsonian contracted with CNC Inshydustries Inc at Hyde Field Clinton to restore it to its original condition and Williams Enterprises Inc of Laurel Md transported the disassembled 2470 from Silver Hill to Hyde Field for restoration work

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises and a former Canadian air force pilot surshyveyed the route by car previous to the move and he anticipated no problems although there was a lot of construction work in progress on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia

I thought about using a helicopter to transport the plane to the museum Showers said but we couldnt get District approval because the flight path would have been over congested areas

Showers was sure there would be enough clearance on the roads although the fuselage with the wing roots and engines attached measured 20 feet in width and

the three-bladed props added a couple more feet of width Height was no problem since the tail was not attached but was already in the museum along with the control surfaces and engine cowlings

Showers had supervised the move of the 2470 from Silver Hill to Clinton on March 19 and was in charge again for the move to the new museum the night of October 8 and 9 The plane was prepared for the trip during the day on October 8 Showers crew of seven men moved the wings from CNes hangar and loaded them on the flatbed truck first laying them on sawshyhorses and then lifting them up to the truck Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries estimated that the hollow wings weighed about 1000 pounds each

Before the wings were put about the trucks Chris noticed that some sand had accumulated in the wing roots It was cleaned out with a vaccum cleaner before the work was allowed to continue

The tailwheel of the fuselage then was mounted on a specially-made coupling on a semi-trailer tractor so that the fuselage could be towed backwards on its own landing gear

Workman making a final walk around inspection before beginning to roll down the long road to the museum

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Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

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ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

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1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

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que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

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ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

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For example the Boeing 247D which has the place of honor in the Hall was towed 15 miles tail first and minus wings from Clinton Md to the Museum down Maryland highways and District of Columbia streets The move was made at night in a pouring rain

Most of the planes came into the mushyseum from the Smithsonians Silver Hill Md storage facility but the 247D came the longer distance from Clinton beshycause it was restored at Hyde Field there (See The Vintage Airplane April 1975)

The moving procedure is old hat to the EAAs Air Education Museum which has trucked many planes over the years from local Milwaukee-area airports to

Boeing 2470 in the Silver Hill Md storage facility before restoration beshygan last April

Franklin Wis But for the Smithsonian it was a new experience fraught with danger for the the valuable aircraft

The DC-3 FC-2 and Trimotor were already in the Museum when the 247D was scheduled to be moved Smithshysonian officials were wary because two shots had been fired at the DC-3 enroute from Silver Hill and a speeder who had

Stephen J Chris (left) and the author before the restoration work began

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises (in hard hat standing between wings in hangar) supervises the movement of the wings from the hangar to the truck

(Photo by Buck Hilbert)

The exhibit includes an American Ford Trimotor Eastern Air Lines Dougshylas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northshyrop Alpha Eastern Air Lines Pitcairn Mailwing Pan American Fairchild FC-2 and the United 247D the worlds first modern airliners

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zipped around the Trimotor on the highway came close to wiping it out

And when the 2470 was first moved from Silver Hill Md to Clinton for the restoration work on March 19 1975 a motorist was given a ticket for careless driving around the slow-moving caravan

On the recent trip from Clinton to the museum however all went according to plan It seemed like an incident might occur when a sedan with four people inside pulled up alongside the caravan but they just took a flash picture of the strange collection of vehicles and continued on their way Many motorists on the road however did gawk at the odd mixture of police cars trucks and an airplane

The Smithsonians Boeing 2470 had a varied backshyground It was rolled out of the factory in Seattle as a United airliner in September 1934 but was leased the next month to Col Roscoe Turner Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nichols who flew it to third place in the

Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries (left) and the author look over plans for restoration of the 2470 last April at Hyde Field Clinton Md before the work got under way

MacRobertson International Air Derby It was returned to United after the race and put into regular airline service United sold the plane in 1937 to a utility comshypany which sold it two years later to the Civil Aeroshynautics Administration The CAA in turn used it for research projects and donated it to the Smithsonian on July 171953

A few months ago with a $27000 grant from United Airlines the Smithsonian contracted with CNC Inshydustries Inc at Hyde Field Clinton to restore it to its original condition and Williams Enterprises Inc of Laurel Md transported the disassembled 2470 from Silver Hill to Hyde Field for restoration work

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises and a former Canadian air force pilot surshyveyed the route by car previous to the move and he anticipated no problems although there was a lot of construction work in progress on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia

I thought about using a helicopter to transport the plane to the museum Showers said but we couldnt get District approval because the flight path would have been over congested areas

Showers was sure there would be enough clearance on the roads although the fuselage with the wing roots and engines attached measured 20 feet in width and

the three-bladed props added a couple more feet of width Height was no problem since the tail was not attached but was already in the museum along with the control surfaces and engine cowlings

Showers had supervised the move of the 2470 from Silver Hill to Clinton on March 19 and was in charge again for the move to the new museum the night of October 8 and 9 The plane was prepared for the trip during the day on October 8 Showers crew of seven men moved the wings from CNes hangar and loaded them on the flatbed truck first laying them on sawshyhorses and then lifting them up to the truck Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries estimated that the hollow wings weighed about 1000 pounds each

Before the wings were put about the trucks Chris noticed that some sand had accumulated in the wing roots It was cleaned out with a vaccum cleaner before the work was allowed to continue

The tailwheel of the fuselage then was mounted on a specially-made coupling on a semi-trailer tractor so that the fuselage could be towed backwards on its own landing gear

Workman making a final walk around inspection before beginning to roll down the long road to the museum

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Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

It

ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

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Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

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(DEAN CRITES

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zipped around the Trimotor on the highway came close to wiping it out

And when the 2470 was first moved from Silver Hill Md to Clinton for the restoration work on March 19 1975 a motorist was given a ticket for careless driving around the slow-moving caravan

On the recent trip from Clinton to the museum however all went according to plan It seemed like an incident might occur when a sedan with four people inside pulled up alongside the caravan but they just took a flash picture of the strange collection of vehicles and continued on their way Many motorists on the road however did gawk at the odd mixture of police cars trucks and an airplane

The Smithsonians Boeing 2470 had a varied backshyground It was rolled out of the factory in Seattle as a United airliner in September 1934 but was leased the next month to Col Roscoe Turner Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nichols who flew it to third place in the

Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries (left) and the author look over plans for restoration of the 2470 last April at Hyde Field Clinton Md before the work got under way

MacRobertson International Air Derby It was returned to United after the race and put into regular airline service United sold the plane in 1937 to a utility comshypany which sold it two years later to the Civil Aeroshynautics Administration The CAA in turn used it for research projects and donated it to the Smithsonian on July 171953

A few months ago with a $27000 grant from United Airlines the Smithsonian contracted with CNC Inshydustries Inc at Hyde Field Clinton to restore it to its original condition and Williams Enterprises Inc of Laurel Md transported the disassembled 2470 from Silver Hill to Hyde Field for restoration work

Norman Showers chief engineer for Williams Enterprises and a former Canadian air force pilot surshyveyed the route by car previous to the move and he anticipated no problems although there was a lot of construction work in progress on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District of Columbia

I thought about using a helicopter to transport the plane to the museum Showers said but we couldnt get District approval because the flight path would have been over congested areas

Showers was sure there would be enough clearance on the roads although the fuselage with the wing roots and engines attached measured 20 feet in width and

the three-bladed props added a couple more feet of width Height was no problem since the tail was not attached but was already in the museum along with the control surfaces and engine cowlings

Showers had supervised the move of the 2470 from Silver Hill to Clinton on March 19 and was in charge again for the move to the new museum the night of October 8 and 9 The plane was prepared for the trip during the day on October 8 Showers crew of seven men moved the wings from CNes hangar and loaded them on the flatbed truck first laying them on sawshyhorses and then lifting them up to the truck Stephen J Chris president of CNC Industries estimated that the hollow wings weighed about 1000 pounds each

Before the wings were put about the trucks Chris noticed that some sand had accumulated in the wing roots It was cleaned out with a vaccum cleaner before the work was allowed to continue

The tailwheel of the fuselage then was mounted on a specially-made coupling on a semi-trailer tractor so that the fuselage could be towed backwards on its own landing gear

Workman making a final walk around inspection before beginning to roll down the long road to the museum

5

Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

It

ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

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Men an(14gt _It J

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Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

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(DEAN CRITES

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Afte r some fin al painting o f ma rkings and le tterin g w ith poli ce ca r lights fl ashing s tarted the thr ee hour the fu seage was rea dy to be moved trip in the rain In order to kee p an eye on the precious

Abo ut 1145 pm the two trucks were joined by possess ion Wa lt e r Boyn e a ss is ta nt cura tor-ae roshypo lice car escorts from the Maryla nd s ta te police and nautics for the mu seum rode alo ng in the ca rava n the Smithsonian s own security force a nd the carava n T he vehicles moved about fi ve miles an hour a nd

The end of a long haul The 2470 will be hoisted to hang on the ceiling in a place of honor It will share the glory with American Air Lines Ford Tri-Motor Eastern Airlines Douglas DC-3 Trans World Airlines Northrop Alpha Eastern Airlines Pitcarin Mailwing and Pan Americans Fairchild FC-2 If you look closely you will see the DC-3 and Ford Tri-Motor Already hanging waiting for your arrival on opening day

It

ke pt s pa rse mid-nig ht traffi c behind it to a crawl Showers pulled it over to th e side of the roa d once in Maryla nd to le t traffic go by a nd a second time a t the Dis trict o f Columbia- Maryla nd line where the Maryshyland sta te police escort was reli eved by Metropolitan police from the Dis trict of Columbia The arrival a t the line was scheduled for 1 a m beca use the ca ravan s pershymit in th e dis trict became effective a t that time

In the Dis trict of Columbia the carava n mo ved ca uti o us ly around the cons tructio n wo rk o n Pe nn shysylva nia avenue and then crept along on Indepe ndence Avenu e past the Capitol to th e new museum site beshytween 4th a nd 7th streets stopping a t 7th street The police escort de parteoi a nd th e fl a t bed truck w ith the wings passed into the wes t side of th e museum through large glass doors which when opened meashysured 30 fee t by 30 fee t The n the fu selage was towed in

The fu selage was se t in place on the fl oor jus t beshylow where it was to be li fted by cra ne for placeme nt hanging from the ceiling trestle The wings were unshyloaded a nd set on the floo r pointing out from the fuseshylages s ides A few hours la ter a t 8 a m a crew from CNC Industries arrrved and began the job of assembling the plane The work took until O ctober 16 fina ll y the 247 was hois ted into place on Oc tober 24

CNC Indus tries had worked almost seven months to res tore th e 2470 a nd it now looks like it did more than 40 yea rs ago except that the aircra ft was painted to resemble the anodized gray color of th e aluminum skin whe n it firs t came out of the fa ctory The anodizing had worn too thin and a Smithsonia n pa inter had to blend 11 different colors to match the original color The 2470 in its final fo rm had a qu al appea ra nce as th e right side is pa ined as a United airline r a nd the left side as it was in the 1934 London to Austra lia a ir race

The only major cha nge fro m th e original is in the p rops The 2470 had two H a milton-S tanda rd threeshyblad ed controllable pitch p rops with counterweights but some time before th e plan e was dona ted to the Smithso ni an th ese were cha nged to H a milton-S tanshydards wi tho ut th e counterweights

Chris said th e props with the counterweights are ex tremely rare a nd would be quite ex pe nsive However th e S mith sonia n is kee ping its eyes open and w ill make a change if original type props are loca ted Chri s said the newer mod el of the p rops cam e out about 1940 long after United disposed of its fl ee t of 69 247Ds and these newer props w ere on the Smithsonians 2470 w hen it made its las t la nding a t Was hington s Na tional Airport in 1953

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Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

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Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

8

VintagI i~

Men an(14gt _It J

_ ~ - ~ -~~ ~~--v- Photo~

Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

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A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

I

I

I

onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

Dear Dot Im enclosing a couple of pieces of my antique 7AG Champ It is a 1946

model and is covered in ceconite and it is a Beaut even if it is mine as you can see from the photos I made a custom designed instrument panel When it was rebuilt all new wood cables and pulleys were replaced It is about the same as a new Champ

As you can see from the photo Im crippled due to an auto accident many years ago and was told Id never be able to fly So far I have ra cked up about 5500 hours Several years ago I had arthritis in my hips so bad it put me in a wheel chair but with the help of God and some fine doctors I can walk better than ever

At present a partner Jim Braden and I are finishing a Starduster Too But at heart Im still an antiqueclassic fan My first restoration was a 1931 Buh Bull Pup back in 1948 There are a number of antiques and classics in this area and when I attend another fly in Ill send you some pictures with names if you would like them

PS I have to remove my built up shoe when I fly so I can feel the Rudder Pedal

Regards Bob Knox

720 Exchange Bldg Memphis TN 38103

Commercial Aviation 5 I

The design uf a 1976 commtmorative

stamp honoring fifty yeilfs of commercial

aviation in the United States was unmiddot

vei led Thursday December 11 in Washshy

ington DC ilt it meeting of the Board

of Directors of the Air Transport Assoshy

ciation

Tht I3-ccnt stamp which will be

placed on sa le- March 18 1976 sa lutes

commercial avia tion in connection with

the 50t h anniversary year of the first

contract airmai l flights Award of the

first airmail contra cts by the Pos t Office

Department in 1926 provided financial

impe tus which helped the com mercial

av iation indust ry become a reality

The stamp design features the a ir shy

plane vhich flew the first contract airshy

mail Hight in 1926 a nd another a irpla ne

representative of other contract fligh ts

whkh followed

Appearing at the upper Idt of th e vigshy

neUe is the Ford Pullman all-metal monoshy

plane used by the Ford Motor Compa ny

to completl the first contract flight on

February 15 1926 from Dearborn Michshy

igan to C leveland Ohio and return

Other Ford Pullman planes inaugurated

service between Detroit and Chicago

o n the same day

Appclring below Ih( Ford plane is

the Laird Swallow biplane which flew a

contract route from Pasco Washington

to Elko Nevada via Boise Idaho o n

April 6 1926 The Swallow was operated

by Varney Air Lines a predecessor of

United Air Lines

The s tamp will be printed on the

gravure press with 50 stamps to the pane

and five plate numbers The colors are

ye llow magenta cyan black tone and

black line The modeler was Peter Cocci

of the Bureau of Engraving and Prin ting

The firs t day of iss ue ceremony will

be held at OHare Airport in Chicago

on March 18 Requests for first day canshy

cella tions should be add resse d to Comshy

mercial Aviation stamp AMF - OHare

C hicago IL 60666middot The cost is 13c per

s tamp to be affixed to the self-addressed

envelopes v hkh must accompa ny orders

and remittance should be by check o r

money o rder instead of cash Postage

s tamps will not be accep ted as payment

Return addresses s hould be written

low a nd we ll to the left a nd a filler of

postal card thickness helps to assure

clear cancellations a nd to prevent

damage to envelopes

Orders must be postmarked no later

tha n March 18

7

Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

8

VintagI i~

Men an(14gt _It J

_ ~ - ~ -~~ ~~--v- Photo~

Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

8

9

A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

11

various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

12

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

I

I

I

onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

Milo in cockpit of his World famous Boeing fighter plane

Milos red and silver Boeing P-12 100 Sportsman Special

MILO BURCHAM INFORMATION AND PHOTOS BY BILL SWEET

Fl ying hi s red a nd s il ve r Was p powered Boeing P-12 Spo rtsma n bipla ne in hi s fa ultl ess prec ision aeroba ti cs a t the pre-Worl d Wa r II C levela nd Na tio n a l Air Races Milo Burcha m was a yea rly favorite o f the vast air race fan s His inverted hammerh ead stall followed by a roaring inve rted power dive to g rass cutting altitud e th en zooming h eavenward in a n outs ide loop w ere th e greatest [n 1936 h e es ta shybli shed an unu sual fli ght record that s till s ta nds tod ay w he n he reshyma in ed aloft fo r 3 hours 37 minutes fl ying upsid e down He had hopes o f m aki ng a transcontin ental flight fro m the inverted positio n but thi s never je lled

[n M ay a nd Jun e of 1937-1938 h e a nd Colon e l Joe Mackey o f Mackey Air Lines represented th e USA in th e great Intern a tional Air Ga mes Paris France Bo th of th ese grea t Ame rican pilo ts s tole the meet

In 1939 Burcham retired fro m ae robatic fl ying and took a positio n as chi ef tes t pil ot for Lockheed Aircra ft Corp at Burba nk Ca li fo rni a and ran all experime ntal fli g ht tests o n Lockh eed fi ghter-bomber airshycra ft during World War II He was killed testing the firs t je t fi ghter the famo us P-80 Shooting S tar

Burch am was o ne of th e m os t resp ected and honored airmen in thi s country and in Europe His name a nd deeds are etched deep in the pages of air his tory

EDITORS NOTE To my knowledge only 2 Boeing 100 airplanes still exist one is

being restored in Florida by Ted Voorhees we will have a story soon With luck we might see it at Oshkosh 76

8

VintagI i~

Men an(14gt _It J

_ ~ - ~ -~~ ~~--v- Photo~

Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

8

9

A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

11

various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

12

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

I

I

I

onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

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Men an(14gt _It J

_ ~ - ~ -~~ ~~--v- Photo~

Every Year In Ju Sponsored By A

Here Is A Sample - Come J

1 Hey man you oughta get a ride in one of them things 2 Grandpa Quick Silver showing the cubs how (Dale Crites) 3 Baron Von Ladd thinks Cubs are great (Targets) 4 Looks good hold it steady now (Barrier Landing Contest) 5 Ted Koston tells the whole story with this one photo The mark of a true professional 6 Burlington is truly a beautiful spot in the spring A country setting for country airplanes

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

8

9

A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

11

various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

12

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

I

I

I

onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

3 Album heir Vintage Machines c~ - - JJ ~~- ~~ ~ ~~

y Ted Koston There Is A Cub Fly In

que amp Classic Division I The Fun At Burlington Wisconsin

7 Note the expression of apprehension (will it or won t it) 8 Cubs as far as the eye can see The Fly In is not restricted howshyever to cubs 9 Fly In wing sitting is a BEAUTIFUL game Dick amp Jeannie Hill 10 AH thats better Now you get your ride 11 That convertible roof sure makes a good flour bomb target No Rocks Please 12 I think there is a little good natured cheating going on here You re suppose to land over the string

~$i ~~~

8

9

A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

11

various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

12

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

I

I

I

onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

A RANCH CRITTER

By Bob Wilson Rt 3 Box 275B

Ocala Florida 32670

My airplane is a 1930 Waco RNF Special Licensed Experim ental Exshyhibition or to be more accurate it should be a UNF as it now has a 220 Continental engine in place of the original 110 Warshyner The engine and mount ring are off a Stearman and the rest is home made as the original engine mount was not reshymovable and welded directly to the fuseshylage The exhaust collector ring is basishycally Stearman with a 4 foot tailpipe for the smoke rig The smoke system conshysists of an oil tank air bottle and pressure regulator with a control valve Ive been using Coruis Oil or Gulf Endurance No 39 It works real well but gets a little expensive at a buck a gallon

It has a 92 Curtis Reed prop Model 5550 The gear brake and wheels are from a Cessna 140 with Waco replica fiber-glass wheel pants from Wag-Aero The front seat is replaced with the smoke tank and collector tank for the inverted fuel system The center section has an extra rear strut and double wires - also extra flying wire and double take wires With an empty Wt of 1605 lbs it cruises about 110 at 1800 rpm I recently built an inverted oil system to go with the inshyverted fuel system and PS5C pressure carburator It now runs beautiful in any attitude It flies real great and does all the fun maneuvers except I cant get it to snap clean Ive run spin strips of

11

various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

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ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

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It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

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Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

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various lengths on both wings and it still hangs on in a stall If any readers have any suggestions now to make a RNF snap clean Id sure like to hear from them Ive experimented with the rigging and put gap covers over the a ilerons which just about doubled the roll rate

This Waco has a rather co lorful background It was originally modified and flown by Roy Timin with the Cole Bros Air Show back in the early 1950s I keep the airplane on my private airport here in Ocala Florida Its a 2000 x 150 grass strip we carved out of the woods We have a ranch here where my wife raises race horses and r raise airplanes I also have a Cessna 310 here that I commute about 300 miles to Miami to get to work Im a Boeing 727 Captain for National Airlines in Miami

I started in aviation as an AampE mechanic and went to Spartan back in 1949-1950 Ive done a little of everyshything from fixed base to airlines and flown charter corporations crop dusting instruction cargo nonshyskeds and the past 20 years with National Airlines Ive kept active as a mechanic since I started and do all my own work from Waco to tractors Ive rebuilt many airplanes over the years and built my own Pitts Special about 10 years ago which we raced at Miami and Reno I have another set of Pitts wings about finished but theyre hanging on the shop wall and may be a long time before they turn into an airplane as long as I have the Waco The thing I really like about the Waco is its a real crowd pleaser at any fly-in and a true antique yet a real good flying sport plane where I can enjoy doing aerobatics

I have a partner in the Waco who is a local equine veterinarian and commercial pilot by the name of Walt Muluihill A couple of years ago we were playing

around in my Old Cessna 195 and I did a few lazy 8s and chandralles and Walt thought it was great fun At the time he was a private pilot that had never done over a 300 bank and really enjoyed a few maneuvers I told him I could give him a much better demonstrashytion in something that resembled an aerobatic airplane The next day he lands on my strip in a rented Cessna 150 Aerobat and said lets go try a few aerobatics Well after that ride he said he had to have an aeroshybatic airplane and considered buying the Aerobat I told him I had a lot of respect for Cessna but an Aeroshybat was not my idea of an aerobatic airplane The only way to enjoy the world upside down is when its framed between two wings with wires and struts and a large exhaust stack along side your ear barking out of a radial engine while hanging by the belt with your head in the slipstream of an open cockpit We looked for about a year until we found our Waco at a price we could live with and I spent the next several months getting it in shape to relicense The next step was to get Walt checked out in the Waco He owns a Cessna 18Z and is a great pilot but only had a couple of hours in Taildraggers We found Bob Koons a great guy up in Gainesville that had a stock two hole Stearman He flew it in one weekend and says why dont you keep it here for a week or so and get Walt checked out Hows that for a stroke of luck I think somebody up there likes us Anyway by the next weekend old Walt was flying that Stearman like a pro While he was still hot we strapped him in the Waco and away we went Never had a bit of trouble and by now is getting to be a pretty good aerobatic pilot

We both rea lly enjoy this old bird and fly it when

Pasture For Airplanes

ever we can Weve had it to several fly-ins and airshyshows and even picked up a couple of trophies

Any of you young fellas that have never been up in an old biplane just havent lived yet Go find one somewhere and at least get yourself a ride while theres still a few around

As for me after 18000 hours of flying my favorite pastime is rolling and looping our Waco while enjoying the real beauty of Mo ther Nature from an open cockpit

12

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

It does great loops Cuban 8s slow rolls point rolls and all the fun stuff I have the smoke rig working real well and it not only looks good from the ground but is a lot of fun to fly and see where youve been

j

-qij~

Ive had the airplane about 2 years and have done a lot of work getting it back in shape Its a real good aeroshybatic performer for an old biplane although it s no Pitts Special The roll rate is relatively slow even with the 4 ailerons

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

By ~~

_ -- If shy

(DEAN CRITES

14

Whats A Plane Engine For Anyway Crites Lands His Training Ship Without One

You need guts to fly an air- tile glide and pancaked slightly plane but the plane doesnt need The ship came down bumped along guts to fly Jl few yards and stopped its exterior

Dean Crites Waulf~sha flying in- undamaged structor proved this Monday Only Two Minutes morning and nallowly fSCaled with The flirtation with death took on-his life and the life of ltme of his ly about two minutes Crites said students Kenneth Rut Milwaukee The two occupants clambered Oll~ of He successfully landed a plane the plane and the bewillered CAA after the motor and all its innards student asked were ripped out of the body of a What happened Did we lose two-seater Waco trainmg ship some of the cowling

Cdtes 43 ancl his young student Hell no look again replied had just takcn off for a flying lesson Crites Our motor fell out at the Curtis-Wright airpolt out- The student slumped against the side of Milwaukee He had nosed wing turned pale and gulped He the plane up to 1000 feet and was didnt believe it just levelling off when the propel- They found the motor buried In leI cracked at its hub and broke in the ground in the Memorial cemeshytwo One half fell off and the othN tery They were still hunting for hal tore the entire motor out of the Ithe ~thel half of ~he propelle nose of the plane and -e rtt hurtling Cntes thought It was an II1tershyto the earth i esting experience

Into a Glide I A couple o~ mont~~ ago four peo-The ship jolted and the top heavy I pIe had a SImIlar mterestmg exshy

tail dropped it almost into a loop penence The motor dropped o~t Crites immediately shoved the of thelr plane near Delavan WIS stick forward straighten up The shIp crashed and burned All the shattered noe and went into a i-four were kIlled glide In the space of a few ~er- -----

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onds the plane was brought back in- I to control and death was cheated i of two victims

The bewildered student didnt know what it was all about but his experienced instructor grabbed firmly on the s tick and glanced about for a likely spot to drop her There was no time for the stUd ent to climb out and u~e hi~ parachute and Captain Crites wouldnt give up his fast sinking ship

He spotted a small farm field out i in front and headed for it The field was not large enough for 01-

dinary fiying but beggars cant be choosers

Crites straighteljed her up from I

rose pointin g upward Critps tooi o-er the controls Carefully he2 Fliers Lose turned the gliding planf pointcd Dward the west around to the southeast and away from the largeMotor in Air (hapel of the cemetery which ioomed as a danger to the crippled ~hip _

Broad green fields lay to the outheast too and Crites knew that

Glide Plane to Earth After t hey would be a fine landing field For a painfully long mile the plane

Propeller Breaks Pulls Out Engine glided down landing neatly in a

farmers alfalfa patch east of the County Line rd _ between W Bur-

An aviation oddity happened here le igh st and W Capitol dr Monday A propeller snapped on a The fliers climbed out stamping plane jerking out the motor but gratefully on the ground Rust took the two fl~ ers aboard landed safely just one look at the oil flecked hole uSlng the~r motorless pla ne as a in the ships nose and he felt like glIder_ swooning he admitted later

The luckv two are cnneth Ru st 22 of 2816 middotN 50th st a dJaflsm~~ Both lad Parachutls -at the Allis-Chalmers Manufactur- It 1 had been alone in the ship ing Co and a student fli er and 1 would have gone over the side he Dean Crites an instructor at the said Both he and Crites wore pa ra-Waukesha county airport chutes

Flying a two wing dual control I The accident wa seen by E A_ training ship Rust and Crites left Boettcher superintendent of the from the Curtiss-Wright airport on Icemetery and John Buth a cemeshyHighway 41 with Rust at the con- tery worker_ troIs I We saw the blade fly off and flut-

They were fl y ing at 1000 [cpt at tel down said Bopttcher It gJistshyabout 105 miles an hour ovcr YVismiddot ened in the air_ Then the motor fell consin Memorial park on Capitol dr_I off it buried itself a foot deep in ~vhen it happened_ the ground The colored parts from

PrOI)eller Llts Go the motor and cowling looked like flowers dropping It was just like

Crack went the propeller Memorial - day w hen planes dropOne-half of it snaped off centrifushy flowers on the cemetery_gal force hurling it to one side and Back at the airport Rust m adeclear of the ship plm to fly with Crites again MonshyIn the same moment the whirling day afternoon and Tuesdayother half of the propeller tltJle out Im going to take my flight testthe 220 horsepower motor Tuesday said Rust r hope I make

The plane lurched like a drullken it man in the frightening silence hat followed as the oil filter part of the cowling oil lines and other smaller parts showered from the gaping hole in the ships nose

Rust tllrned off the ignition for the r10tor that wasnt there

A the ship hung in a stall its r - i

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EDITORS NOTE

Dean and Dale Crites are twin brothers that have been together and active in aviation for as long as anyone I have known Currently they grind out restorations faster than possible by men many years their junior A more interesting pair of gentlemen would be hard to find

Crites Praised For Work

Pilot Dean Crites Waukesha formshyerly of Mukwonago holds the Wisshyconsin Civil Air corps plaque for the most outstanding feat of aviation in Wisconsin in 1941 He was presented with the plaque in Milwaukee at the corps annual banquet recently at which 222 persons were present

Crites has been flying since 1928 and has 2600 hours to his credit On September 22 1941 he safely landed a Waco plane after the 220 horse powshyer motor had been torn out of it by a broker propeller blade Neither Crites nor the student flier with him were injured

Crites also is credited with trainshying more than 100 youths to fly unshyder the federal instruction program

Whistling In The Rigging Paul H Poberezny

fAA President

For the be tter pa rt o f my life ] have been a member of some ty pe of avia tion orga ni za ti on Inva riably each one of th ese orga ni za tions had a newsletter or communishyque to keep its membership info rmed and toge th er In 1953 w ith th e fo unding of the Ex pe rim enta l Aircra ft Associa tion I began my involvement with the publishing of a n in -house newsletter Rathe r than being on the outshyside looking in I was now on the inside looking out fo r help from aU of th e membership for items of inte res t to be published

In th e ea rl y days of EA A the publica tio n was a news-letter tha t contained in fo rma tion on people a nd a ircra ft in a rela tively s mall geographical ar ea As the orga ni zashytion grew the small tabl oid became a w inted publica tion a nd The Experim enter was born Informa tion s ta rted to come fr om a much wider base w ith interna ti onal news appea ring As th e publica tio n deve lop ed in s ize a nd quality The Experim enter evolved into SPORT AVIATION

Th ro ughout thi s pe ri od of tim e it was easy fo r the membership to rely on th e editor to find write and print the info rma tion If I had a p enn y fo r eve ry time I was promised an a rticle but never rece ived it I would need a big jar to hold them all I am sure SPORT AVIATION edito r Ja ck Cox ca n document many simila~middot ins ta nces of hi s own

Lets face it th e toughes t job facing any assoc iation today is ge tting out a time ly worth while in-ho use pubshylica ti on O ne easy way to solve the problem is to have a p aid edito ri a l s ta ff th a t does all th e wo rk fr o m reshysea rch to writing Thi s wo uld make membe rs hip du es cos ts prohi biti ve

17

r fin d today tha t many members of EAA forget tha t SPORT AVIATION is TH EIR publica tion It is not a newsshys tand item with s to ri es w ritte n by a paid editori al s taff Ra the r it is a house o rga n with a rti cles writte n by the members fo r the me mbers I g uess beca use it has deshyveloped into such a fine publica tio n peopl e tend to forshyge t th at we a re a ll amate ur publis he rs at hea rt

The problem is uni versa l As [ review th e hundreds of Cha pter newsle tters tha t come through H eadquarters each month it becomes a pparent that each of th e newsshyle tte r edito rs face the sa me problem whe re d o we get informati on and w ho w ill contribute

The Vintage Airplane is fa cing the sa me pro ble m There are many grea t s tories to be told and fin e photos to be printed But unless we ca n ge t pa rti cipati on from th e membe rship your editor Al Kelch ca nno t do it a ll He alrea dy has a lead on man y fine s tories but has found tha t it takes three o r fo ur le tters and a number of pho ne calls befo re h e can rece ive a response Many times he is promised an article and it is two three or fo ur months be fore any info rmation is rece ived When informa tion is rece ived it may be inco mple te a nd furth er purs uit is needed

To each on e of yo u I say - The Vintage Airplane is yo ur publi ca ti o n Your edito ri a l s ta ff NEE DS YOUR H ELP If you see an item of interest or know of an item tha t would be no te worth y please let Al or any of the ofshyfi ce rs dir ectors o r contributing editors know about it If you say you are going to write an a rticl e please do so It is a big job to put toge ther this publica tion and it is be ing done by a complete voluntee r effort Le ts all work to shyge the r to make a tough job eas ier Each one of us will benefit

111 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

One for one for one If each memshyber would take it upon himself to get one new m ember a year each ye ar the compounded effect wou ld resu lt in a very successful orga ni-

ation Take pride in your activity - make it grow

NOMINATIONS FOR ANTIQUECLASSIC

DIVISION OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

In accordance with th e Divs ion s By-Laws as amended the terms of two officers and four directors will expire at the 1976 EAA Antiquel Classic Division Annua I Business Meeting to be h eld on Augus t 4 1976 at Oshkosh Wisconsin during the 24th International Fly-In Convention Those offices which will expire are

PRESIDENT J R Nielande r Jr SECRETARY Richard H Wagner DIRECTORS Al Kelch

Evander M Britt M C Kelley Viets Jack c Winthrop

All of the incumbents have indicated that they will b e candidates for reelection Additional nominations for these offices shall be made on official nomination forms obtainable from the headquart e r s of middot the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229 Hales Corners Wiscons in 53130 The Nominating Petition sha ll include a recent photograph of the candidate and contain a brief resume of hi s background and ex p e ri e nc e Candidates must hav e been m embers of the AntiqueClass ic Divi sion in good standing for the previous two con secutive years Each petition requires a minimum of ten (10) s ignatures of AntiquelCla ssic Division m embers in good standing with their Division membe rship numb er and expiration da te

Nominating Pe titions mu st be submitted to the Chairman of the Nominating Committee EAA AntiquelClassic Division clo EAA Headshyquarters no later than ApriJ 30th 1976 Voting ins tructions and procedures will be publi shed in a late r issue of The Vintage Airplane

Morton W Les ter Chairman Nomin ating Committee

Calendar of Events May 1-2 - Corona California - Southern July 3-4 - Gainesville Georgia - 9th Annual

California Regional EAA Fly-In Cracker Fly-In Sponsored by North sponsored by EAA Chapter 1 7 11 92 Georgia Chapter of AAA Antiques Classics 96 448 and 494 For information contact Homebuilts and Warbirds welcome Terry Davis 13905 Envoy Ave Contact Bill Davis 2202 Willivee Place Corona CA 91720 Phone (714) 735-8639 Decatur GA 30033

July 31 - August 8 - Oshkosh Wisconsin May 15-16 - Conroe Texas - Fly [n at 24th Annual EAA Internatio na[ Montgo mery Texas Airport (40 miles Fly-In Conventio n Start making yournorth of Houston) sponsored by EAA plans NOWAntique and Classic Chapter 2 EAA Chapter

August 30 - Se ptember 3 - Fond du Lac12 and EAA Chapter 345 For information Wisconsin - 11th Annual EAAIAC Intershycontact Doug Scott 626 Lakeview national Aeroba tic Championships SponsoredDrive Sugarland TX 77478 Ph by International Aerobatic Club (713) 494-3791 or Ed Pruss 6327 Tall Willow

September 17-19 - Georgetown SouthDrive Houston TX 77088 Ph Ca rolina - Second An nual Spirit of 76(713) 466-4490 Fly-In at Georgetown County Airport South

May 22-23 - Cambridge Maryland - 9th Carolina Sponsored by Chapter 543Annual Po tomac Antique Aero Squadron AntiqueClassics Warbirds and HomebuiltsAntique Fly-In Horn Point Aerodrome For information contact Herb Bailey

May 28 29 30 - Watsonville California - 12th PO Box 619 Georgetown SC 29440 (803) Annual An tiquer Fly-In Air Show 546-2525 days (803) 546-3357 nigh ts and

weekends

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Beautiful Tie TacLapel Pin and charms with the official

AntiqueClassic Emblem Blue with silver or gold

gt$~-~ t(4 DIVISION ~~t

~ Charm - Silver $325

Charm - Gold $350 Tie TacLapel Pin $400

(Gold Only)

Above prices include postage

Send orders to AntiqueClassic Division P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Back Issues Of The Vintage Airplane

Limihd numbers of back issues of TH E VINTAGE AIRPLANE Me available at $L OO each Copies s till on hand a t EAA Hllt1dquarters are

IY73 - MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGU ST SEPTEMBE R OCTO BER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

IY74 - JANUARY FEBRUA RY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SE IyrEMBER OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

1975 - JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY-AUGUST SEPTEMBE I~-OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

1976 - JANUARY FEBRUARY

This handsome beautifully crafted reproduction of famous World War I Spad XIII fighter plane is su re to be a collectors item and is in limited supply

The heavy cast all-meta l scale model of shiny gold and silver finish is detailed to perfection (with colorful red white and blue insignia) and sits on an elega nt black base complete with brass nameplate for personalized engrav ing (size 8 x 7 x 4) which contains a SOLlD-ST ATE built-in AM radio

This handsome scale model has an expensive feel to it and the be1u tiful Spad XIll fighter model is perfect for your office o r home desk your fireplace mantel or other spot where your enthusiasm and interes t in classic antique airplanes can be shown

Guaran teed to receive many admiring comments and a sure-fire conversa tion piece this beautiful model also makes a unique gift item for the classic airplane buff

SPECIAL FREE each order set of FAA PLANE GUARDS for your real a irplane prevents th eft thievery )

We will ship your model Spad XIII fighter today via UPS for only $3950 (plus $350 UPS ship) Send now to

IELFIELD Dept EAA-VA

ChiHenango NY 13037

Yes please rush my scale S pad XIII figh te r with buil t- in radio I a m e nclosi ng c heckor money order fo r $3950 plus $350 for ha ndling shipping via UPS s hip to

(name - p lease pri nt)

(com plete add res amp zip code)

18

Whistling In The Rigging Paul H Poberezny

fAA President

For the be tter pa rt o f my life ] have been a member of some ty pe of avia tion orga ni za ti on Inva riably each one of th ese orga ni za tions had a newsletter or communishyque to keep its membership info rmed and toge th er In 1953 w ith th e fo unding of the Ex pe rim enta l Aircra ft Associa tion I began my involvement with the publishing of a n in -house newsletter Rathe r than being on the outshyside looking in I was now on the inside looking out fo r help from aU of th e membership for items of inte res t to be published

In th e ea rl y days of EA A the publica tio n was a news-letter tha t contained in fo rma tion on people a nd a ircra ft in a rela tively s mall geographical ar ea As the orga ni zashytion grew the small tabl oid became a w inted publica tion a nd The Experim enter was born Informa tion s ta rted to come fr om a much wider base w ith interna ti onal news appea ring As th e publica tio n deve lop ed in s ize a nd quality The Experim enter evolved into SPORT AVIATION

Th ro ughout thi s pe ri od of tim e it was easy fo r the membership to rely on th e editor to find write and print the info rma tion If I had a p enn y fo r eve ry time I was promised an a rticle but never rece ived it I would need a big jar to hold them all I am sure SPORT AVIATION edito r Ja ck Cox ca n document many simila~middot ins ta nces of hi s own

Lets face it th e toughes t job facing any assoc iation today is ge tting out a time ly worth while in-ho use pubshylica ti on O ne easy way to solve the problem is to have a p aid edito ri a l s ta ff th a t does all th e wo rk fr o m reshysea rch to writing Thi s wo uld make membe rs hip du es cos ts prohi biti ve

17

r fin d today tha t many members of EAA forget tha t SPORT AVIATION is TH EIR publica tion It is not a newsshys tand item with s to ri es w ritte n by a paid editori al s taff Ra the r it is a house o rga n with a rti cles writte n by the members fo r the me mbers I g uess beca use it has deshyveloped into such a fine publica tio n peopl e tend to forshyge t th at we a re a ll amate ur publis he rs at hea rt

The problem is uni versa l As [ review th e hundreds of Cha pter newsle tters tha t come through H eadquarters each month it becomes a pparent that each of th e newsshyle tte r edito rs face the sa me problem whe re d o we get informati on and w ho w ill contribute

The Vintage Airplane is fa cing the sa me pro ble m There are many grea t s tories to be told and fin e photos to be printed But unless we ca n ge t pa rti cipati on from th e membe rship your editor Al Kelch ca nno t do it a ll He alrea dy has a lead on man y fine s tories but has found tha t it takes three o r fo ur le tters and a number of pho ne calls befo re h e can rece ive a response Many times he is promised an article and it is two three or fo ur months be fore any info rmation is rece ived When informa tion is rece ived it may be inco mple te a nd furth er purs uit is needed

To each on e of yo u I say - The Vintage Airplane is yo ur publi ca ti o n Your edito ri a l s ta ff NEE DS YOUR H ELP If you see an item of interest or know of an item tha t would be no te worth y please let Al or any of the ofshyfi ce rs dir ectors o r contributing editors know about it If you say you are going to write an a rticl e please do so It is a big job to put toge ther this publica tion and it is be ing done by a complete voluntee r effort Le ts all work to shyge the r to make a tough job eas ier Each one of us will benefit

111 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

One for one for one If each memshyber would take it upon himself to get one new m ember a year each ye ar the compounded effect wou ld resu lt in a very successful orga ni-

ation Take pride in your activity - make it grow

NOMINATIONS FOR ANTIQUECLASSIC

DIVISION OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

In accordance with th e Divs ion s By-Laws as amended the terms of two officers and four directors will expire at the 1976 EAA Antiquel Classic Division Annua I Business Meeting to be h eld on Augus t 4 1976 at Oshkosh Wisconsin during the 24th International Fly-In Convention Those offices which will expire are

PRESIDENT J R Nielande r Jr SECRETARY Richard H Wagner DIRECTORS Al Kelch

Evander M Britt M C Kelley Viets Jack c Winthrop

All of the incumbents have indicated that they will b e candidates for reelection Additional nominations for these offices shall be made on official nomination forms obtainable from the headquart e r s of middot the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229 Hales Corners Wiscons in 53130 The Nominating Petition sha ll include a recent photograph of the candidate and contain a brief resume of hi s background and ex p e ri e nc e Candidates must hav e been m embers of the AntiqueClass ic Divi sion in good standing for the previous two con secutive years Each petition requires a minimum of ten (10) s ignatures of AntiquelCla ssic Division m embers in good standing with their Division membe rship numb er and expiration da te

Nominating Pe titions mu st be submitted to the Chairman of the Nominating Committee EAA AntiquelClassic Division clo EAA Headshyquarters no later than ApriJ 30th 1976 Voting ins tructions and procedures will be publi shed in a late r issue of The Vintage Airplane

Morton W Les ter Chairman Nomin ating Committee

Calendar of Events May 1-2 - Corona California - Southern July 3-4 - Gainesville Georgia - 9th Annual

California Regional EAA Fly-In Cracker Fly-In Sponsored by North sponsored by EAA Chapter 1 7 11 92 Georgia Chapter of AAA Antiques Classics 96 448 and 494 For information contact Homebuilts and Warbirds welcome Terry Davis 13905 Envoy Ave Contact Bill Davis 2202 Willivee Place Corona CA 91720 Phone (714) 735-8639 Decatur GA 30033

July 31 - August 8 - Oshkosh Wisconsin May 15-16 - Conroe Texas - Fly [n at 24th Annual EAA Internatio na[ Montgo mery Texas Airport (40 miles Fly-In Conventio n Start making yournorth of Houston) sponsored by EAA plans NOWAntique and Classic Chapter 2 EAA Chapter

August 30 - Se ptember 3 - Fond du Lac12 and EAA Chapter 345 For information Wisconsin - 11th Annual EAAIAC Intershycontact Doug Scott 626 Lakeview national Aeroba tic Championships SponsoredDrive Sugarland TX 77478 Ph by International Aerobatic Club (713) 494-3791 or Ed Pruss 6327 Tall Willow

September 17-19 - Georgetown SouthDrive Houston TX 77088 Ph Ca rolina - Second An nual Spirit of 76(713) 466-4490 Fly-In at Georgetown County Airport South

May 22-23 - Cambridge Maryland - 9th Carolina Sponsored by Chapter 543Annual Po tomac Antique Aero Squadron AntiqueClassics Warbirds and HomebuiltsAntique Fly-In Horn Point Aerodrome For information contact Herb Bailey

May 28 29 30 - Watsonville California - 12th PO Box 619 Georgetown SC 29440 (803) Annual An tiquer Fly-In Air Show 546-2525 days (803) 546-3357 nigh ts and

weekends

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Beautiful Tie TacLapel Pin and charms with the official

AntiqueClassic Emblem Blue with silver or gold

gt$~-~ t(4 DIVISION ~~t

~ Charm - Silver $325

Charm - Gold $350 Tie TacLapel Pin $400

(Gold Only)

Above prices include postage

Send orders to AntiqueClassic Division P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Back Issues Of The Vintage Airplane

Limihd numbers of back issues of TH E VINTAGE AIRPLANE Me available at $L OO each Copies s till on hand a t EAA Hllt1dquarters are

IY73 - MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGU ST SEPTEMBE R OCTO BER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

IY74 - JANUARY FEBRUA RY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SE IyrEMBER OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

1975 - JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY-AUGUST SEPTEMBE I~-OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

1976 - JANUARY FEBRUARY

This handsome beautifully crafted reproduction of famous World War I Spad XIII fighter plane is su re to be a collectors item and is in limited supply

The heavy cast all-meta l scale model of shiny gold and silver finish is detailed to perfection (with colorful red white and blue insignia) and sits on an elega nt black base complete with brass nameplate for personalized engrav ing (size 8 x 7 x 4) which contains a SOLlD-ST ATE built-in AM radio

This handsome scale model has an expensive feel to it and the be1u tiful Spad XIll fighter model is perfect for your office o r home desk your fireplace mantel or other spot where your enthusiasm and interes t in classic antique airplanes can be shown

Guaran teed to receive many admiring comments and a sure-fire conversa tion piece this beautiful model also makes a unique gift item for the classic airplane buff

SPECIAL FREE each order set of FAA PLANE GUARDS for your real a irplane prevents th eft thievery )

We will ship your model Spad XIII fighter today via UPS for only $3950 (plus $350 UPS ship) Send now to

IELFIELD Dept EAA-VA

ChiHenango NY 13037

Yes please rush my scale S pad XIII figh te r with buil t- in radio I a m e nclosi ng c heckor money order fo r $3950 plus $350 for ha ndling shipping via UPS s hip to

(name - p lease pri nt)

(com plete add res amp zip code)

18

Calendar of Events May 1-2 - Corona California - Southern July 3-4 - Gainesville Georgia - 9th Annual

California Regional EAA Fly-In Cracker Fly-In Sponsored by North sponsored by EAA Chapter 1 7 11 92 Georgia Chapter of AAA Antiques Classics 96 448 and 494 For information contact Homebuilts and Warbirds welcome Terry Davis 13905 Envoy Ave Contact Bill Davis 2202 Willivee Place Corona CA 91720 Phone (714) 735-8639 Decatur GA 30033

July 31 - August 8 - Oshkosh Wisconsin May 15-16 - Conroe Texas - Fly [n at 24th Annual EAA Internatio na[ Montgo mery Texas Airport (40 miles Fly-In Conventio n Start making yournorth of Houston) sponsored by EAA plans NOWAntique and Classic Chapter 2 EAA Chapter

August 30 - Se ptember 3 - Fond du Lac12 and EAA Chapter 345 For information Wisconsin - 11th Annual EAAIAC Intershycontact Doug Scott 626 Lakeview national Aeroba tic Championships SponsoredDrive Sugarland TX 77478 Ph by International Aerobatic Club (713) 494-3791 or Ed Pruss 6327 Tall Willow

September 17-19 - Georgetown SouthDrive Houston TX 77088 Ph Ca rolina - Second An nual Spirit of 76(713) 466-4490 Fly-In at Georgetown County Airport South

May 22-23 - Cambridge Maryland - 9th Carolina Sponsored by Chapter 543Annual Po tomac Antique Aero Squadron AntiqueClassics Warbirds and HomebuiltsAntique Fly-In Horn Point Aerodrome For information contact Herb Bailey

May 28 29 30 - Watsonville California - 12th PO Box 619 Georgetown SC 29440 (803) Annual An tiquer Fly-In Air Show 546-2525 days (803) 546-3357 nigh ts and

weekends

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Beautiful Tie TacLapel Pin and charms with the official

AntiqueClassic Emblem Blue with silver or gold

gt$~-~ t(4 DIVISION ~~t

~ Charm - Silver $325

Charm - Gold $350 Tie TacLapel Pin $400

(Gold Only)

Above prices include postage

Send orders to AntiqueClassic Division P O Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Back Issues Of The Vintage Airplane

Limihd numbers of back issues of TH E VINTAGE AIRPLANE Me available at $L OO each Copies s till on hand a t EAA Hllt1dquarters are

IY73 - MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGU ST SEPTEMBE R OCTO BER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

IY74 - JANUARY FEBRUA RY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SE IyrEMBER OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

1975 - JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APR IL MAY JUNE JULY-AUGUST SEPTEMBE I~-OCTOshyBER NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

1976 - JANUARY FEBRUARY

This handsome beautifully crafted reproduction of famous World War I Spad XIII fighter plane is su re to be a collectors item and is in limited supply

The heavy cast all-meta l scale model of shiny gold and silver finish is detailed to perfection (with colorful red white and blue insignia) and sits on an elega nt black base complete with brass nameplate for personalized engrav ing (size 8 x 7 x 4) which contains a SOLlD-ST ATE built-in AM radio

This handsome scale model has an expensive feel to it and the be1u tiful Spad XIll fighter model is perfect for your office o r home desk your fireplace mantel or other spot where your enthusiasm and interes t in classic antique airplanes can be shown

Guaran teed to receive many admiring comments and a sure-fire conversa tion piece this beautiful model also makes a unique gift item for the classic airplane buff

SPECIAL FREE each order set of FAA PLANE GUARDS for your real a irplane prevents th eft thievery )

We will ship your model Spad XIII fighter today via UPS for only $3950 (plus $350 UPS ship) Send now to

IELFIELD Dept EAA-VA

ChiHenango NY 13037

Yes please rush my scale S pad XIII figh te r with buil t- in radio I a m e nclosi ng c heckor money order fo r $3950 plus $350 for ha ndling shipping via UPS s hip to

(name - p lease pri nt)

(com plete add res amp zip code)

18